"Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions."

-- Genrich Altshuller

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“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself as anything less than a god? Â And, when you consider that this incalculably subtle organism is inseparable from the still more marvelous patterns of its environment - from the minutest electrical designs to the whole company of the galaxies - how is it conceivable that this incarnation of all eternity can be bored with being?”
“We need to find three Saudi Arabias just to offset [the] decline.”
“Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine that can be activated by a variety of agents - radiation, chemicals, inflammation and infection.”
“External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.”
“When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.”
“And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?”
“I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.”
“Getting people to think about what they think, and asking them questions about it, is the best way I know how to teach,”

Source : "5 Great Teachers On What Makes A Great Teacher". Interview with Anya Kamenetz, www.npr.org. November 8, 2014.

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