The Ideas That Have Lighted

This Topic Brings Me To That Worst Outcrop Of Herd Life, The Military System, Which I Abhor... This Plague-spot Of Civilization Ought To Be Abolished With All Possible Speed. Heroism On Command, Senseless Violence, And All The Loathsome Nonsense That Goes By The Name Of Patriotism -- How Passionately I Hate Them!

If I Had It [life] To Do All Over Again, I'd Have Been A Plumber.

The Most Valuable Thing A Teacher Can Impart To Children Is Not Knowledge And Understanding Per Se But A Longing For Knowledge And Understanding, And An Appreciation For Intellectual Values, Whether They Be Artistic, Scientific, Or Moral. It Is The Supreme Art Of The Teacher To Awaken Joy In Creative Expression And Knowledge. Most Teachers Waste Their Time By Asking Questions That Are Intended To Discover What A Pupil Does Not Know, Whereas The True Art Of Questioning Is To Discover What The Pupil Does Know Or Is Capable Of Knowing.

One Scientific Epoch Ended And Another Began With James Clerk Maxwell.

"there's Been A Quantum Leap Technologically In Our Age, But Unless There's Another Quantum Leap In Human Relations, Unless We Learn To Live In A New Way Towards One Another, There Will Be A Catastrophe."