Julius Sumner Miller quotes

“What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.”
-- Julius Sumner Miller

Source : "What Science Teaching Needs". Junior College Journal, Volume 38, by American Association of Junior Colleges, Stanford University, 1967.

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“Whatever work you undertake to do in your lifetime, it is very important that first you have a passion for it - you know, get excited about it - and second, that you have fun with it. That's important. Otherwise, you see, your work becomes nothing but an idle chore. Then, you hate the life you live.”
-- Julius Sumner Miller

Source : Australian ABC Television show "Why Is It So?", (episode 1), 1963.

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“The intellectual process must be stirred. A feeling for knowledge for its own sake must be engendered. Learning will then be an exciting adventure which few can escape, nor will many wish to. And it will bring the spirit to a great awakening which can likely last a lifetime.”
-- Julius Sumner Miller

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“What is needed is competence first and enthusiasm first. There is nothing second! Although each or one of these alone is a good start, one without the other is impotent. But if I had a choice I would have enthusiasm first.”
-- Julius Sumner Miller

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“I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.”
-- Julius Sumner Miller

Source : "The Days of My Life : An Autobiography" by Julius Sumner Miller, (p. 212), 1989.

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“The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.”
-- Julius Sumner Miller

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“If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.”
-- Julius Sumner Miller

Source : Australian ABC Television show "Demonstrations in Physics", ("Episode 30. The Physics of Toys: Electrostatic, Magnetic and Miscellaneous"), 1969.

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“Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.”

“Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.”

“We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....”

“Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!”

“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”

“The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'”

“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”

“The hand is no different from what it creates.”

“All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.”

“I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.”