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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.

— Julius Sumner Miller

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Source: in Science Demonstrations, #30 Physics of Toys: Electrostatic - Magnetic, Instructional TV Service (1969)
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My view is this: We teach nothing.

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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.

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"It is important that we subscribe to the requirements of nature."

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

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Kids are my favorites … their spirit and curiosity has not yet been dulled by schools.

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