Education Quote by Murray Gell-Mann

“Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.”

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I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

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Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

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If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs.

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