"The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive."

-- Thomas Huxley

#Nature Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Self Quotes

“Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.”
“If you want to be a model, then you should probably become an actor. That's the only way to get hired to do the great advertising campaigns that are really interesting or the magazine covers, and it's hard to build a name for yourself as a model without those things.”

Source : Interview magazine, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.
“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.”

Source : Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1645, Anchor
“There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells ... without some means of access, there is no way even to begin to guess at the extent and quality of what is there. The psychedelic drugs allow exploration of this interior world, and insights into its nature.”

Source : Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”
“When you have a dream you have to work hard to achieve that dream. Your dreams when you are young can be the force that keeps you going.”
“I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared”

Source : Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing
“How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!”
“Freshness is essential. That makes all the difference.”

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