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I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until…

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I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ…
Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by…
Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret…
I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that…
If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of…
Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and…
You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four,…
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires…
The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have…
I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is…
You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies & remote…

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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. — Mortimer Adler
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be… — Sarah Caldwell
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is… — Yvon Chouinard
I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self. — George Washington Carver
We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education… — Stephen Downes
Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself. — Sybil Marshall
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. — Unknown Author
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. — Oscar Wilde
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires… — Michael Faraday

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