Education Quote by Niels Henrik Abel

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

— Niels Henrik Abel

With but a few exceptions, we don't have this personal study under masters any more. Craftsmanship has sunk very low. We no longer have…

— Walter Gropius

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what…

— Simon Newcomb

“Mathematics is the study of anything that obeys the rules of logic, using the rules of logic.”

— Eugenia Cheng

What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of…

— Keith Devlin

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

— Whitfield Diffie

Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to…

— Immanuel Kant

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from…

— Anonymous

A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

— Ludwig von Mises

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much…

— Herbert Spencer