"It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts."

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Source : Paul Richard Halmos (1983). “Selecta: expository writing”, Springer Verlag

Paul Halmos

#Teacher Quotes #Math Quotes #Facts Quotes

“I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.”
“Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.”
“Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser altitudes; it was a passing from sunshine into shadow, from the effulgent glory of heaven to the mists of worldly passions and human unbelief; it was the beginning of His rapid descent into the valley of humiliation.”

Source : James E. Talmage (2015). “Jesus the Christ”, p.330, Latter-day Strengths
“I know how men in exile feed on dreams.”
“I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.”

Source : "Meet & Greet Monday : Conversations with Jonny Lang and DJ Steve Porter". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2010.
“Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.”

Source : FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Jul 28, 2013
“I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.”
“Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.”

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