Elementary Quotes

282 quotes by 248 authors

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's,… — Charles Babbage
Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school. — Donna Brazile
We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation… — Richard Riley
God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition… — Oswald Chambers
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
"There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake.… — Amartya Sen
To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural… — Alistair Cooke
The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is… — John Dewey
If you buy a book on golf instruction buy the thinnest book you can find. The thinner the book, chances are the easier and more… — Chi Chi Rodriguez
I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I now have a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for… — Albert Einstein
Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public… — Thomas Jefferson
No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination. — Thomas Jefferson
In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the… — Warren Hutcherson
In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess. — Henny Youngman
When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not yet be in possession of… — Henri Poincare
I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it. — Larry Page
PoincarÃ© was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something… — Eric Temple Bell

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