"It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the schools do not succeed, become scientists... and I never stopped asking questions."

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Source : Knut Schmidt-Nielsen (1998). “The Camel's Nose: Memoirs Of A Curious Scientist”, p.3, Island Press

Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

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“I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.”

Source : Isaac Rosenberg (1979). “The collected works of Isaac Rosenberg: poetry, prose, letters, paintings, and drawings”
“As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.”
“The main thing to avoid being a casualty is simply this: to have a kind of intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ whereby you're able to hear God speak to your heart, you're sensitive to what He's saying to you to do, and that you're willing to be obedient to Him.”
“The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.”
“Because people's desire to be comfortable supersedes their desire for self knowledge and well being, they avoid any form of discomfort. This is the impulse that drives us to repress undesired emotions, thoughts, and past trauma.”
“We are capitalism made flesh.”

Source : "The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age". Book by Mark Kingwell, 2000.
“During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.”
“Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.”

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