"I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world."

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Knowing Quotes #People Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)”
“My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.”
“Looking for a word from the Lord? Believe that he has already spoken, and read what he's already written.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 27, 2013
“The police stopped me when I was out in my car. They told me it was a spot check. I admitted to two pimples and a boil.”
“Time was away and somewhere else, There were two glasses and two chairs And two people with one pulse.”

Source : 'Meeting Point'
“The outcome is not up to you. The outlook is.”
“And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.”
“Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.”

Source : James Cagney (1976). “Cagney by Cagney”

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