Do Not Try To Satisfy Your Vanity By Teaching A Great Many Things. Awaken People's Curiosity. It Is Enough To Open Minds; Do Not Overload Them. Put There Just A Spark. If There Is Some Good Inflammable Stuff, It Will Catch Fire.

-Anatole France

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Do Not Try To Satisfy Your Vanity

Anatole France

Do Not Try To Satisfy Your Vanity By Teaching A Great Many Things. Awaken People's Curiosity. It Is Enough To Open Minds; Do Not Overload Them. Put There Just A Spark. If There Is Some Good Inflammable Stuff, It Will Catch Fire.

Topic

Teaching

Fire

Vanity

Distrust Even Mathematics; Albeit So Sublime And Highly Perfected, We Have Here A Machine Of Such Delicacy It Can Only Work In Vacuo, And One Grain Of Sand In The Wheels Is Enough To Put Everything Out Of Gear. One Shudders To Think To What Disaster Such A Grain Of Sand May Bring A Mathematical Brain. Remember Pascal.

Science

Thinking

Sublime