For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most - while still letting us notice when it's time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life. Jane McGonigal
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...
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Isaac Newton
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
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Evelyn Fox Keller
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
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Unknown
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
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Alice James
If time be judiciously employed, there is time for everything.
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George Head
More Quotes By Jane McGonigal
Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t...
The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You...
If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not...
Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been...
The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it
