Roger Lewin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.
-- Roger Lewin

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Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions.
-- Roger Lewin

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The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution. At the risk of doing violence to the positions of some of the people at the meeting, the answer can be given as a clear No.
-- Roger Lewin

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Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.
-- Roger Lewin

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You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past
-- Roger Lewin

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It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.
-- Roger Lewin

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There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.
Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell.
I worry because there is a basic asymmetry, an imbalance, between the two parties. For the Palestinians, it is about status and sovereignty, which could always be adjusted, while for Israel it is about security and trust. And security is something you can't adjust. If you make a mistake on the scrutiny issue, there is no going back.
Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Roger Lewin famous quotes

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