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- I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with their heartfelt and…
- The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.
- Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically…
- There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.
- What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of number."…
- In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only in the last…
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- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon