I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.
Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.
It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.
Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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