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| Daily Quotes |
| 106. |
"Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind."
- Louis Pasteur
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| 107. |
"42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot."
- Steven Wright
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| 108. |
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently."
- Henry Ford
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| 109. |
"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."
- George Washington Carver
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| 110. |
"The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought."
- Havelock Ellis
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| 111. |
"A diagram is worth a thousand words."
- Carl E. Linderholm
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| 112. |
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
- Henry David Thoreau
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| 113. |
"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."
- Unknown
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| 114. |
"Character is what you are when no one is watching."
- Unknown
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| 115. |
"The journey for an education starts with a childhood question."
- David L. Finn
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| 116. |
"If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch a fish."
- Alex F. Osborn
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| 117. |
"The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination."
- Augustus de Morgan
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| 118. |
"What is now proved was once only imagined."
- Proverb
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| 119. |
"Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore."
- Albert Einstein
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| 120. |
"Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures."
- George Polya
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| 121. |
"Five out of four people have trouble with fractions."
- Steven Wright
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| 122. |
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
- Mark Twain
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| 123. |
"I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books."
- M. C. Escher
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| 124. |
"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."
- Frank A. Clark
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| 125. |
"Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation."
- Mark Twain
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| 126. |
"To learn, you must want to be taught."
- Proverb
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| 127. |
"The purpose of education... is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions."
- James Baldwin
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| 128. |
"The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word."
- W.F. Osgood
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| 129. |
"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature."
- Unknown
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| 130. |
"A problem well stated is half-solved."
- John Dewey
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| 131. |
"The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea."
- George Polya
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| 132. |
"I have no particular talent. I am only inquisitive."
- Albert Einstein
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| 133. |
"... it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him."
- John Kemeny
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| 134. |
"Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world."
- Alfred North Whitehead
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| 135. |
"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why."
- Bernard Baruch
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| 136. |
"Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = e^x, like a phoenix rising form its own ashes, is its own derivative?."
- Francois le Lionnais
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| 137. |
"No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated."
- Nelson Mandela
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| 138. |
"The best teacher is no the one who knows most, but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful."
- H.L. Mencken
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| 139. |
"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."
- René Descartes
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| 140. |
"There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer."
- George Polya
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