Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in....
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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the Ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.Thomas Henry Huxley
Let us have 'sweet girl graduates' by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom and the 'golden hair' will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.
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It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.
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The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
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