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What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.
What Science Teaching Needs, Junior college journal, volume 38 (1967)
"It is important that we subscribe to the requirements of nature."
Why Is It So? (1964)
Whatever work you undertake to do in your lifetime, it is very important that first you have a passion for it — you know, get excited about it — and second, that you have fun with it.
I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.
The Days of My Life : An Autobiography (1989)
Kids are my favorites … their spirit and curiosity has not yet been dulled by schools.
My view is this: We teach nothing.
What Science Teaching Needs, Junior college journal, volume 38 (1967)
If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.
We are approaching a darkness in the land. Boys and girls are emerging from every level of school with certificates and degrees, but they can't read, write or calculate. We don't have academic honesty or intellectual rigor. Schools have abandoned integrity and rigor.