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Optimization hinders evolution.

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Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was as abstract as Algebra. ... We may say that the great Greek ideal was to have no use for useful things. The Slave was he who learned useful things; the Freeman was he who learned useless things. This still remains the ideal of many noble men of science, in the sense they do desire truth as the great Greeks desired it; and their attitude is an external protest against vulgarity of utilitarianism.

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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

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Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have left undone. We are limited only by what we are willing to do.

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Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

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Any noun can be verbed.

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If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

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Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

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We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

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PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.

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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

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We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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Education is not received. It is achieved.

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We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

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There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

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