Free Play Quotes - Page 2

• Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

  Robert Henri

  Play, Growth, Degrees

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Science is not formal logic-it needs the free play of the mind in as great a degree as any other creative art. It is true that this is a gift which can hardly be taught, but its growth can be encouraged in those who already posses it.

  Max Born

  Art, Science, Play

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• What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

  John Stuart Mill

  Nature, Play, Giving

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “The Subjection of Women”, p.48, Hayes Barton Press

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• Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.

  Vannevar Bush

  Play, Choices, Curiosity

  United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush (1945). “Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President”, p.7

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• A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.

  George Santayana

  Play, Soul, World

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

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