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“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
― Isaac Asimov

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“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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“The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it."

[As quoted in The New Yorker, April 25, 2011]”
― Francis Crick

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“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
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