"You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took 3 hours to walk 6 miles. You have only to apply the same common sense to stones rolling down hillsides, and the calculus is at your command."

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Source : W. W. Sawyer (2012). “Mathematician's Delight”, p.137, Courier Corporation

W. W. Sawyer

#Education Quotes #Believe Quotes #Men Quotes

“As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.”
“No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention.”
“... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?”
“When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person.”
“If she took Po as her husband, she would be making promises about a future she couldn't yet see. For once she became his wife, she would be his forever. And, no matter how much freedom Po gave her, she would always know that it was a gift. Her freedom would be not be her own; it would be Po's to give or to withhold. That he never would withhold it made no difference. If it did not come from her, it was not really hers.”
“Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.”
“...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.”
“I grew up on the beach and played side-out scoring all my life, but rally scoring is better for our sport. There is pressure on every play. You can't make a mistake, but that also means your opponent can't make a mistake. It makes the matches more exciting to watch.”

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