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We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.
Thomas Jefferson Letter to William Roscoe · 1820

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“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.”

Albert Einstein · Autobiographical Notes, 1949 · Primary source

“Intellectual individualism and scientific eras emerged simultaneously in history and have remained inseparable ever since.”

Albert Einstein · Ideas and Opinions , 1954 · Primary source

“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my bookfriends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their large loves and heavenly charities.”

Helen Keller · The Story of My Life, 1903 · Primary source

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Thomas Jefferson · 1820
Letter to William Roscoe

A letter discussing penal reform, the planned University of Virginia, intellectual freedom, British unrest, and Anglo-American relations.

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