“Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.” KnowsIdeasFactsEducationKnow HowTheoryResearchInnovationForestsItemsNavigateRejectingProliferationKnowledge Learning Author:Raymond Queneau
“While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations, such as automobiles or airplanes or transatlantic cables or Protestantism or the theory that the earth is round and not flat.” MayArtEarthFormOpinionModernTheoryInnovationOriginalsMajorityRoundsRadicalFlatsAirplaneHostileCablesAutomobileModernismModern ArtProtestantismMajority Opinion Author:Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
“I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us.” TwoLeftCreativityCollegeTheoryMonthsInnovationIndependenceCompetitionRewardsCuriosityConformityCollaborationApplicationSchooledTwo Months Author:Dale J. Stephens
“Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these subjects, they do not constitute great innovations in mathematics.... Neither determinants nor matrices have influenced deeply the course of mathematics despite their utility as compact expressions and despite the suggestiveness of matrices as concrete groups for the discernment of general theorems of group theory.” CoursesDealsAttentionWrittenGroupsSubjectsCenturyExpressionTheoryPaperInnovationMathematicsDespiteConcretePapersUtilityDiscernmentNineteenth CenturyTheoremsCompact Book:Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times Source: Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times
“I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.” MenFirstsLooksMayHelpingMovingSocialStepsTroubleDangerTheoryRevolutionRepublicanInnovationConservativeRefuseFirst StepsConservatismDemocracy In AmericaAnti Conservative Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.” UseTheoryDependsInnovation Author:Albert Einstein
“The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as repeatable as necessary. (In fact, repetition was encouraged on the theory that, oh well, everyone pretty much sinned just about all the time.)” WellsFactsTheoryInnovationAffairPriestsConfessionRepetitionOh Well Book:How the Irish Saved Civilization Source: How the Irish Saved Civilization
“Justice only exist introvertly” LifeLawLife LessonsMotivationJusticeTheoryInnovationPractical Life Author:Israel O. Olaniran