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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
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"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"
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"And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another."
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"He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust," he said."It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short."
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"Homework doesn't end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning."
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"To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions."
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"The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism."
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"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."
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"They say education has no end. If you still disagree with this, here is a better way to take it in; "Education has an end that never comes"."
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"The best university in the world is neither Oxford nor Harvard. The best university is "youniversity". YOU got the lecture halls of thoughts in YOU! You got everything you need to graduate with first class accomplishments put in you! YOU can do it!"
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"I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool."
Development
"I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison."
Direction
"Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer."
Family
"My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System."
Education
"While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time."
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"In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics."
Chicago
"In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country."
Country
"My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University."
Mother
"During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays."
Students
"One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France."
Life
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