"The great virtue, I think, of studying Aristotle - and, more importantly, taking him seriously as a possible teacher - is that he presents an alternative view of both science and the world."

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David Roochnik

#Teacher Quotes #Thinking Quotes #World Quotes

“Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action.”
“Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.”
“Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.”
“It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.”
“The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause of astonishment: their inability to understand simple questions is even more astonishing. The general acceptance of simple ideas is difficult and rare, and yet it is only when simple, fundamental, ideas have been accepted that further progress becomes possible on a higher level.”
“It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.”
“Most of the people you look at in the early days of Harlem - the zoot suits, the music, the style of fashion, the vibrant colors - that's all influences from the south.”
“My mustache gets so many questions he has his own agen now.”

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