"There is no passion to be found playing small and settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." Nelson Mandela
10 Greatest Quotes By Famous Scientists :
- "Imagination is more important than knowledge."-Einstein
- "In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time." -Leonardo da Vinci
- "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself." -Einstein
- “You cannot teach a person anything; you can only help them to discover it in themself.” -Galileo
- “The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.” - Galileo
- "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -Benjamin Franklin
- "An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men." -Charles Darwin
- "A true friend is one soul in two bodies." -Aristotle
- "He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." -Leonardo da Vinci
- “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”-Isaac Newton
- Select one quote and take a minute to talk about what it means to you.
I really enjoyed Nelson Mandela's quote. I am always disheartened by my students (and some colleagues) who think they cannot accomplish what they are capable of. Dream the impossible dream. And work harder than you ever thought possible.
ReplyDeleteda Vinici's quote stood out to me because my first instinctual perception is to imagine ignorance, inability to get someone to see a different light. Reading it twice and three times it can also be perception from someone who has done their homework and research.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see two fixed stars with different perceptions of the Sundusky's article in a Socratic Seminar.
# 8 is COOL
ReplyDeleteIf that monkey got his hands on some really good brandy, he might never leave it .... except to use the bathroom.
ReplyDeleteIssac Newton's quote speaks both to my cultural tenants as well as to science. Just as science research builds upon a foundation started by previous research, I am reminded of the everyday lesson my parents told me. As a child, and still to this day, my parents remind me that I am where I am in life because I have harvested from the fruits of their labor and sacrifice. Their own sacrifices have allowed me to get to where I am in life, experience the life that I have experienced as well as have the the knowledge of the world that I have. It is only through bearing in mind that my parents have established life experience and a body of knowledge to be great people-- it is on this basis that I build myself to see further.
ReplyDeleteLove this: "An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men." -Charles Darwin
ReplyDeleteAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest ..... until they raise the rate on your student loan.
ReplyDeleteTo err is human........... to moo, bovine.
ReplyDeleteAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest. I have two accounts, a two year old and a five year old. Pretty lucky.
ReplyDeleteI love the first da Vinci quote. One of the hardest parts of teaching math is convincing students that that was then, this is now.
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