Copies Quote by W. Edwards Deming

Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.

— Ralph P. Boas, Jr

People love learning new things and you need to understand they want to learn it as easy as possible.

— Scott Herman

“I think actually if you take the analogy with other areas of engineering, and increasingly of science and even mathematics, you can see people…

— C.A.R. Hoare

To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary...

— Kimon Nicolaides

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

— Hermann Hesse

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

— Albert Bandura

Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get…

— Albert Einstein

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

— Baltasar Gracian

I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

— Anonymous

Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and…

— Anonymous

Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.

— Eric Hoffer