Walter Lewin Quotes
What counts, I found, is not what you cover, but what you uncover. Covering subjects in a class can be a boring exercise, and students feel it. Uncovering the laws of physics and making them see through the equations, on the other hand, demonstrates the process of discovery, with all its newness and excitement, and students love being part of it.
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
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I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
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My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
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The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.
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Having children with someone is the real bond.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.
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I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.
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Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
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She looked creepy/adorable.
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It's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious!
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I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.
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A private man has always the liberty (because thought is free) to believe or not believe in his heart those acts that have been given out for miracles, according as he shall see what benefits can accrue by men's belief, to those that pretend, or countenance them, and thereby conjecture whether they be miracles or lies.
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I have miles to go before I sleep...
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I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
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After I finished the Atlantic swim I said "never again," but it didn't take long for me to change my mind. I like to push my limits. I want to raise money for cancer research and to inspire others to follow their dreams.
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What counts, I found, is not what you cover, but what you uncover. Covering subjects in a class can be a boring exercise, and students feel it. Uncovering the laws of physics and making them see through the equations, on the other hand, demonstrates the process of discovery, with all its newness and excitement, and students love being part of it.
