We human beings are grand because we have the power to understand. We ask questions about nature and most remarkably, we can construct mathematical models which explain how it works.
speech graduation curiosity
Margaret J. Geller
Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa Commencement 1995, 1995
Our curiosity combined with our uncanny ability to find explanations defines us.
speech graduation curiosity
Margaret J. Geller
Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa Commencement 1995, 1995
Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are the enemies of wonder. Doors closed for so many of our innately curious children cannot easily be opened.
speech graduation education
Margaret J. Geller
Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa Commencement 1995, 1995
A good education in skepticism can help us to discover those bad guesses, and to destroy them with mockery and contempt.
speech graduation wisdom
Kurt Vonnegut
Hobart and William Smith Colleges Commencement 1974, 1974
Through our scientific genius we have made of this world a neighborhood; now through our moral and spiritual genius we must make of it a brotherhood.
speech graduation empathy
Martin Luther King Jr.
Morehouse College Commencement 1959, 1959