"To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand."

-- Galileo Galilei

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“There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.”
“Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.”

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“I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.”
“Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.”
“I'm not looking to step in and make 'big, bold changes' - I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people.”
“The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective when he does not take these opinions for models. That man is thought best fitted to depict a period of the past, who is not in the least affected by that period. But only he who has a share in building up the future can grasp what the past has been, and only when transformed into a work of art can history arouse or even sustain instincts.”
“We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.”

Source : Mark Hopkins (1847). “Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses”, p.235
“I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.”

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