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There are lots of things about millionaires that make them pretty ordinary, but what's not ordinary is their ability to accumulate wealth, how hard they work, and what they do for a living. ”
Usually, people write the characters into a box, and that's just not true to life. ”
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. ”
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. ”
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. ”
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ”
Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn. ”
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. ”
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. ”
My studio's passion is improving the public experience of cities for everyone. ”