Frank Oppenheimer

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The best way to learn is to teach
- Frank Oppenheimer
Collection: Way
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Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.
- Frank Oppenheimer
Collection: Jobs
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Understanding is a lot like sex; it’s got a practical purpose, but that’s not why people do it normally.
- Frank Oppenheimer
Collection: Sex
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Nobody ever flunked a science museum
- Frank Oppenheimer
Collection: Museums
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Many people who talk about the discovery method of teaching are really talking about arranging a lesson or an experiment so that students discover what they are supposed to discover. That is not an exploration. The whole tradition of exploration is being lost for entire generations.
- Frank Oppenheimer
Collection: Teaching
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There are two things that people [are surrounded by and] avoid trying to understand. One is music, and the other is electricity.
- Frank Oppenheimer
Collection: Two