"Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just virtual reality."

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Source : "Britain needs schools for science" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

Martin Rees

#Real Quotes #Hands Quotes #Fields Quotes

“Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.”
“Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.”
“There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life ...”

Source : Evelyn Anthony (2015). “The Tamarind Seed”, p.98, Open Road Media
“I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.”
“I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.”
“HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.”

Source : Peter F. Hamilton (2012). “Great North Road”, p.63, Pan Macmillan
“It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.”
“The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.”

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