"Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much."

“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.”

“The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.”

Source : George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

“There is no clear-cut distinction between example and theory”

Source : Michael Atiyah (2014). “Michael Atiyah Collected Works: Volume 7: 2002-2013”, p.370, OUP Oxford

“I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.”

“We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.”

“It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.”

“Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy. Only fools flout them. The much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve.”

“I like to think of myself less like 'an adult' and more like a 'former fetus.'”

Source : Anna Kendrick @AnnaKendrick47, twitter.com. April 24, 2014.