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No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern… — Roger Penrose
A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have… — Ivan Chtcheglov
Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked.… — Alexis de Tocqueville
But the average person doesnt have that much imagination. They just want to be entertained. They want to have the tableau presented for them. They… — Anton Szandor LaVey
If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his… — Maria Montessori
Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still the same place, manufacturing plants… — Jacque Fresco
Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to… — Walter A. Shewhart
The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented… — Carl Bernstein
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics.… — William Winwood Reade
By He in whose Hand is my soul, I have lived amongst people who never ordered food to be prepared for themselves If [food] was… — Abu Nu`aym
Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way. — Max Dehn
Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically… — Keith Devlin
Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean way appears as… — George Polya
When we find ourselves unable to reason (as one often does when presented with, say, a problem in algebra) it is because our imagination is… — W. W. Sawyer
When music is presented which, however appropriate for other occasions, does not fit the Sabbath, much is lost. . . . The Spirit does not… — Boyd K. Packer
The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as… — George Stevens
On the other hand, I'm very tolerant as well. I expect that everybody can play what they want. I'm only not tolerant when it comes… — Eberhard Weber
My only supporter and comrade-in-arms was Georg Helm, who had endeavored to formulate an energetic conception of science before me and had presented his results… — Wilhelm Ostwald
It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the… — Nora Raleigh Baskin
We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling,… — Alain de Botton

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