The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of difficulties and paradoxes which instructors now invite us to solve in a few minutes. — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
“The language of mathematics differs from that of everyday life, because it is essentially a rationally planned language. The languages of size have no place for private sentiment, either of the individual or of the nation. They are international languages like the binomial nomenclature of natural history. In dealing with the immense complexity of his social life man has not… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share
Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO. — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations. — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
