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- Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla… — Gian-Carlo Rota
- Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by… — Henry Taube
- We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach… — William Tyndale
- Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding… — Hippocrates
- Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who… — Thomas Jefferson
- If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ...… — 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… — Hermann Hankel
- From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years… — 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… — Wolfgang Pauli
- Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and… — 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… — Oswald Spengler
- Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians… — Howard S. Becker