Self Quotes (3)
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
In Science Past, Science Future (1975), 208.
What is a scientist?… We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.
The Montessori Method, trans. Anne E. George,(1964), 8.
See also: | Experiment (199) | Fascination (4) | Guide (3) | Life (155) | Mystery (27) | Passion (9) | Pursuit (7) | Scientist (71) | Secret (11) | Thought (65) | Truth (241) | Veil (2)
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
In Francesco De Sanctis, History of Italian literature (1959), Vol. 1, 418.
See also: | Discovery (166) | Force (14) | God (121) | Heaven (18) | Investigation (25) | Planet (34)