“School is disappointing. If science is exciting and art is exhilarating, the schools and universities have achieved the not inconsiderable feat of rendering both dull. As every scientist and poet knows, one discovers both vocations in spite of, not because of school. It takes years to recover from the stupor of being taught Shakespeare in English Lit and Wheatstone's bridge in Physics.”
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
“What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“If I could go back would I do it differently? Well, I can't go back.”
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“One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.”
― Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
― Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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