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“I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a direct intervention on our part that we may remedy the difficulties, but rather by a precise knowledge of their causes, which may enable us, if not to check, at least to avoid the evil consequences.”
Source : Louis Agassiz (1882). “Report on the Florida Reefs”
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“Love is jealous that any should come before her, or after. She would be all in all. If a man will trust her and live in her, he shall know all things.”
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“Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing”
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“You cant reduce me to a set of influences.”
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“I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.”
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“Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.”
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“Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star.”
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“Most remarks made by children consist of correct ideas very badly expressed. A good teacher will be very wary of saying 'No, that's wrong.' Rather, he will try to discover the correct idea behind the inadequate expression. This is one of the most important principles in the whole of the art of teaching.”
Source : W. W. Sawyer (2012). “Vision in Elementary Mathematics”, Courier Corporation
