"Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that computation, such as doing long division, is not mathematics at all. Calculators can do the same thing and calculators can only calculate they cannot do mathematics."

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Source : Melvin Schwartz (2012). “Principles of Electrodynamics”, p.1, Courier Corporation

John A. Van de Walle

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“In my first stand-up acts there wasn't material even. You know, I'd go on stage and cry and read a Dear John letter or gut fish on stage. I could be odd - and it's what interested me as a comedian.”

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“Mind you, itâ€™s all bullshit with wine, isnâ€™t it? Itâ€™s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.”
“I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.”
“I enjoy life. I always enjoy jokes.”
“Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997.”
“Denmark and the UK are in agreement that our future prosperity depends on stimulating green growth, and getting off the oil hook.”
“When you're in front of an audience, you know if it didn't work. I get very nervous and have a fear of failure that is much more profound than in the podcast world.”
“For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.”

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