Education Quote by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Download Open image “Numerical precision is the very soul of science.” — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Inspirational Math Mathematics Precision Science Soul
“…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science. — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. — Alexander John Ellis Copy Share Image
No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Another book gives the illusion of scientific precision by working out this reasoning in a mathematical formula using a “Mental Performance Ratio (MPR),” — Kenneth L. Higbee Copy Share Image
Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of physics that their particles have been moved, moulded and conformed. They are no exceptions to the rule that God always geometrizes. Their problems of form are in the first instance mathematical problems, their problems of growth… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share
We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
“…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation's slow relentless handiwork. — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest. — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent. — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will not obtain in it a looking-glass; if he has not a skin of tin he will not be able to endure the toil of education; if he has not leaden posteriors he will not be able… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really… — Erica Jong Copy Share
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
