Layman Quotes

30 quotes by 29 authors

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist may… — Henry Taube
We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach the gospel, the… — William Tyndale
Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help… — Hippocrates
Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to… — Thomas Jefferson
If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question… — Gerald Holton
Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to… — Hermann Hankel
From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well… — Victor Francis Hess
The layman always means, when he says reality that he is speaking of something self-evidently known; whereas to me it seems the most important and… — Wolfgang Pauli
Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the… — M.C. Escher
The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and the philosopher (who… — Oswald Spengler
Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians learn a more… — Howard S. Becker
Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find myself like others,… — Norman Corwin
When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which… — Salvador Dali
A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it — Martin Luther
That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the light of the… — Seraphim of Sarov
The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the courtroom, then sit down as… — John Silber
Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of… — Hermann Weyl
Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child,… — John Noble
I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it. — Laura San Giacomo

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