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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries. I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. There may be ultimate answers, but if there are, I would be sorry if we were to find them. For my own sake I would like very much to find them, but their discovery would leave nothing for those coming after me to seek. Each generation builds on the advances of the previous generation, and this is as it should be. As human beings, we need the quest. The principal goal of education is to create people who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done -- people who are creative, inventive discoverers. The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radioactive substance contains a new element to which we propose to give the name of radium. |
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