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| 141. |
"If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it."
- George Polya
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| 142. |
"Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature."
- John Allen Paulos
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| 143. |
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
- Marilyn vos Savant
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| 144. |
"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."
- Frederick Douglass
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| 145. |
"It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think."
- John Wesley Young
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| 146. |
"The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying."
- Jean Diedonne
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| 147. |
"Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her."
- D'Alembert
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| 148. |
"Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life."
- Mary Hatwood Futrell
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| 149. |
"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
- Albert Einstein
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| 150. |
"The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance."
- E. Purcell and D.Varberg
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| 151. |
"The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately connected with the prosperity of the state."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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| 152. |
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, in nature's inexorable imperative."
- H.G. Wells
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| 153. |
"Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
- Oscar Wilde
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| 154. |
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
- Henry David Thoreau
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| 155. |
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."
- Maya Angelou
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| 156. |
"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
- Eric Temple Bell
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| 157. |
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
- Sir Winston Churchill
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| 158. |
"A surprising portion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?"
- Martin Gardner
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| 159. |
"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."
- Galilei Galileo
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| 160. |
"Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world."
- Marcus Du Sautoy
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| 161. |
"But in my opinion, all things, in nature occur mathematically."
- René Descartes
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| 162. |
"The person who does the work is the only one who learns."
- Harry Wong
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| 163. |
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
- Aristotle
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| 164. |
"Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system."
- Sidney Hook
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| 165. |
"Better than a thousands days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.."
- Japanese Proverb
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| 166. |
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
- Derek Bok
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| 167. |
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
- Abraham Lincoln
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| 168. |
"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."
- B.B. King
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| 169. |
"You can never be overdressed or over educated."
- Oscar Wilde
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| 170. |
"Too often we give students answers to remember rather than problems to solve."
- Roger Lewin
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| 171. |
"Students don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."
- Unknown
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| 172. |
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but ideas live on."
- John F. Kennedy
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| 173. |
"A hundred times every day I remind myself that inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."
- Albert Einstein
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| 174. |
"When one door closes another opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell
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| 175. |
"Any time you are given something for free, be gracious and mindful that someone somewhere still had to pay for it."
- Matt Winking
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