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"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."
"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."
"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."
"While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils."
"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."
Explore more quotes by Albert Einstein
"In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous."
"I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one."
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
"I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering."
"Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more."
"The deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God."
"For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one."
"I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments."
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