Very interesting quotes about fairy tales...from very interesting people:

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
-- Albert Einstein



A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
-- Marie Curie


If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.
-- G. K. Chesterton