Paul E. Gray quotes

“The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.”
-- Paul E. Gray

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“S. J. Keyser is a shrewd and insightful observer of academe. His experiences in three universities, Brandeis, UMass, and MIT, enrich his perspectives about the way universities work, and his exploration of the culture of MIT is brilliant.”
-- Paul E. Gray

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“The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to control (or dominate) the instincts of his physical nature, the more his character, by rising above material contingencies, widen, become free and independent.”

“I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.”

“My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.”

“Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.”

“Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.”

“Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.”

“What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

“Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.”

“But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.”