"Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens about which you speak. If you can find nothing better, take a house-fly or a cricket, and let each one hold a specimen and examine it as you talk."

-- Louis Agassiz

#Teaching Quotes #Science Quotes #House Quotes

“There are no accidents in Nature,”
“A genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives.”
“I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.”
“We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.”

Source : "State Of The Union With John King", transcripts.cnn.com. September 6, 2009.
“So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.”

Source : "Warwick Davis Talks Leprechauns, Johnny Depp, and His Desire To "Just Keep Working"". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. March 16, 2012.
“All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.”
“Frequently what we say is rest is merely laziness. Our body requires respite and so does our mind and spirit. But a person should never rest because of a laziness which arises from the evil nature in his emotion. How often laziness and emotional distaste for work join to employ physical fatigue as a cover-up.”
“Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters”

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