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Para los científicos y pensadores autodidactas como Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Faraday, yo y muchos otros, la educación es un viaje incesante de descubrimiento.
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― The Education Decree
― The Education Decree
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He was careful to instruct him in such an affable, kind, and gentle way, that he easily prevailed with him to consider studying, not so much as a duty of obedience to his superiors, but as the way to purchase for himself a most delightsom and invaluable good. In effect, he soon created in Philaretus so strong a passion to acquire knowledge, that what time he could spare from a scholar's task, which his retentive memory made him not find uneasy, he would usually employ so greedily in reading, tha
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― Robert Boyle: By Himself and His Friends: With a Fragment of William Wotton's 'Lost Life of Boyle'
― Robert Boyle: By Himself and His Friends: With a Fragment of William Wotton's 'Lost Life of Boyle'