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I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and it's not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience. - Carl Sagan

I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma. - The Wizard of Oz

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. - Goethe

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. - Source Unknown

An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys. - Van Roy'S Law

George Orwell, in his vision of 1984, got it backward. We do not have to fear Big Brother watching us on TV. In times like these, we have to fear the effects of our watching Big Brother. - Mortimer B. Zuckerman

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. - Anne Sullivan

The word No carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say Yes. - Joyce Maynard