Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.

Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions.

You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past

Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Music transcends the boundaries of language.

Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?

Shamanism is not simply a component of society: on the contrary, shamanism, together with its tiered cosmos, can be said to be the overall framework of society.

I want him now and always, and I want our always to start right now.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.

I wouldn't give my troubles to a monkey on a rock.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.

The dance is strong magic. The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice. The dance is strong magic. The dance is life.