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John Ciardi

"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."

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"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."

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"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"

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"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"

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"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

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"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

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"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"

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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

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"I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical."

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Amber Hurdle

"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."

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"There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas."

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"This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams."

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"What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down."
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