“To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins. ...Therefore, he who differentiates well teaches well.”
---John Amos Comenius
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Thursday, January 5, 2012
``You cannot enslave a mind....
“You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself, that values itself, that understands itself.”
---Wangari Maathai
---Wangari Maathai
Friday, December 16, 2011
``Even for the physicist...
“Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.”
---Werner Heisenberg
---Werner Heisenberg
``Mind-Machine Interaction Research....
“Mind-Machine Interaction Research Center”
---Sign seen on a door at the University of Florida's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, circa 1999.
---Sign seen on a door at the University of Florida's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, circa 1999.
``Just fly your seat...
“Just fly your seat. Don't worry...The rest of the airplane will follow.”
---F. Carl Barnett (Owner and Aerobatics Instructor, Wings Jamaica Ltd.)
---F. Carl Barnett (Owner and Aerobatics Instructor, Wings Jamaica Ltd.)
Monday, October 31, 2011
``Truth is ever to be found in simplicity...
“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things...”
---Sir Isaac Newton
---Sir Isaac Newton
``If the world should blow itself up...
"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."
---Sir Peter Ustinov
---Sir Peter Ustinov
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