"What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination."

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Source : "What Science Teaching Needs". Junior College Journal, Volume 38, by American Association of Junior Colleges, Stanford University, 1967.

Julius Sumner Miller

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“As I get older, I fear aging less because I realize it's the inevitable, but I definitely have a slight fear of aging.”

Source : "Interview with Actress Jacqui Holland on Beauty, Aging, and Embracing Pain". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.”
“and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++).”
“A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.”
“Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2014). “The Hermit Of Eyton Forest”, p.58, Head of Zeus
“Everything we do has consequences.”
“Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture? But I was doomed to live;”
“Preparation can only take you so far , after that you've got to take a few leaps of faith”

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