"Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn."

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Source : Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1869). “Outlines of Astronomy”, p.17

John Herschel

#Knowledge Quotes #Students Quotes #Pursuit Quotes

“I'm a sarcastic person, and people don't get my humor sometimes”
“Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.”
“America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.”

Source : Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.13, BookBaby
“A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.”
“Shall we go dance the hay, the hay? Never pipe could ever play Better shepherd's roundelay.”

Source : Nicholas Breton (1927). “Phillida and Coridon: and other pastorals”
“The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.”
“I think having women behind the cameras is exciting - whether it's as a director or a writer or a producer - because it does feel like we're in the middle of this awakening of realizing that it's important for women to have a voice.”
“As a writer one doesnâ€™t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society and people are our meat, one really doesnâ€™t belong in the midst of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance.”

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