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education couple winter
To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more of my time than I like. Meanwhile I hope that the second time this expenditure of time will be much less, otherwise I would never be able to reconcile myself to it, even practical (astronomical) work must give far more satisfaction than if one brings up to B a couple more mediocre heads which otherwise would have stopped at A. Carl Friedrich Gauss
education winter science
I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.
education teaching science
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his precious time.
education book men
Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind. Agnes Smedley
education brother children
It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother. Agnes Repplier
education teaching easy
The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
education language liberal-education
There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
education healing grace
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word. Alan K. Simpson
education men thinking
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
information pressure firsts
The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised. Carl Bernstein
information
We have no more information on him. He's out indefinitely. Tommy Amaker
information suggest
We have no information to suggest they have done so. Bryan Whitman
information problem suggest
We have no information to suggest any problem with the vaccine.
information miller motive neighbor prior words
We have no information that words were exchanged between them . . . or of any prior neighbor dispute. We have no information about what Miller was doing outside. The motive is unknown.
information particular
We have no information that something particular has happened.
information
We have no information on who did it or why, and (we) are investigating.
information
We have no information. He is not in the tribunal.
information-is-power information want
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. Aaron Swartz
merely movies problem putting taking thinking
The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.
mere my-own values
For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value. Charles M. Schwab
merely please stars struck
We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them. John Webster
mere ifs
When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them. C. S. Lewis
merely
No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing. Oscar Wilde
merely message needs
What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance. Dada Vaswani
merely
'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception. Marianne Williamson
merely quotes
You are not thinking. You are merely being logical. Niels Bohr
merely slip spring
To think that spring had depended/On merely this, a look, a kiss/To think that something so splendid/Could slip away in one little daybreak . . . . Frank Sinatra