David Hirsch > Quotes

“I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable—nothing which so lightens and sweetens toil, as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery.… A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems.” —Abraham Lincoln, Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (September 30, 1859) Abraham Lincoln”
― David Hirsch, Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason