"Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?"

-- Paul Lockhart

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Why Not Quotes

“You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.”
“If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.”
“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.”
“Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with Highway, there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended Highway to be the first film that I ever made. Didnt happen.”
“In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.”
“The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.”

Source : David Gelernter (2010). “The Muse in the Machine: Computerizing the Poetry of Human Thought”, p.96, Simon and Schuster
“Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.”
“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”

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