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“The eyes of the young are drawn to the stars, and the spirit of youth is seldom earth-bound.”
― The Well of Loneliness
― The Well of Loneliness
“Michael Faraday, the son of a Yorkshire blacksmith, was born in south London in 1791. He was self-educated, leaving school at fourteen to become an apprentice bookbinder. He engineered his own lucky break into the world of professional science after attending a lecture in London by the Cornish scientist Sir Humphry Davy in 1811. Faraday sent the notes he had taken at the lecture to Davy, who was so impressed by Faraday’s diligent transcription that he appointed him his scientific assistant. Faraday went on to become a giant of nineteenth-century science, widely acknowledged to have been one of the greatest experimental physicists of all time. Davy is quoted as saying that Faraday was his greatest scientific discovery.”
― Why Does E=mc²?
― Why Does E=mc²?
“For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Faraday, myself and many others, education is a relentless voyage of discovery. To us education is an everlasting quest for knowledge and wisdom.”
― The Education Decree
― The Education Decree
“Why isn't one taught how to be loved? Why isn't one taught anything?”
― All Hallows' Eve
― All Hallows' Eve
“We have inherited from our forefathers the keen
longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge.”
― What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge.”
― What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
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