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I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.

— Julius Sumner Miller The Days of My Life : An Autobiography (1989)

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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.

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)

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

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True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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