“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
Albert Einstein's life advice in a letter to his son Eduard on 5 February 1930. In the picture, Einstein is riding a bicycle in Santa Barbara, USA in 1933.
@Mmuks4@citizentvkenya This stories of police officers killing their wives and committing suicide have become too much, it will get to a point where no woman wants to get married to a police officer.
"As a child, I promised my mother I would win the Nobel Prize in Physics. 50 years later, I said to my mother, 'See, I have kept my promise. I won the Nobel Prize.' 'No,' said my mother, 'You promised it would be in physics!'"
Happy birthday to literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe!
#OnThisDay in 1990, South African president F. W. de Klerk promised to release @NelsonMandela, who had been in prison since the early 1960s. Mandela was freed in the days following the announcement. In 1993, Mandela and de Klerk were jointly awarded the #NobelPeacePrize.
"I refuse to accept that world is so poor, when just one week of global military expenditure can bring all our children into classrooms."
On International Day of Education, we honour @k_satyarthi who has dedicated his life for children's right to education.
#CommitToEducation
"The traditional boundaries between various fields of science are rapidly disappearing, and what is more important: science does not know any national borders."
Remembering medicine laureate Sune Bergström who was born on this day, 10 January 1916, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Some words to reflect on from Rigoberta Menchú Tum - a Mayan k’iche’ activist and a leading advocate of indigenous rights and ethno-cultural reconciliation. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992.
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