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Patterns Quotes by Paul Lockhart
- Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.
- Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it may be, students…
- If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do…
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- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation... — Seneca the Younger
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the… — David Lack
- I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many… — Benoit Mandelbrot
- As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know… — Germaine Greer
- Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life. — Charles Handy
- It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men. — Rodney Stark