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“The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.”

Littles Remember Numbers Learning Capacity Casts Proportion Sand Faculty Mould

Book:Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer

Source: Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer

“There are a limited number of things we can be personal with. This understanding can bring us to pare down to what we really need, and to let go of that which we cannot hold in caring awareness. We may learn that having too much can be another form of poverty.”

Needs May Book Form Understanding Numbers Poverty Learning Too Much Awareness Letting Go Caring

Author:Gunilla Brodde Norris

“There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.”

Men Found Numbers Learning Miracle Secure Sufficient Delusion Good Sense

Book:Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition

Source: Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition

“The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.”

“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.”

Should Science Political Used Stars Numbers Learning Huge Hundred Discovery Economics Billions Used To Be Economist Galaxy Deficit Huge Numbers

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.”

Long Book Whole Universe Grows Bits Difficult Numbers Learning Study Century Direct Bounds Immense Volume Multitudes Convenient Concealed

Author:Denis Diderot

“For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.”

Thinking Numbers Audience Learning Teacher Pride Bigger Worthy Pupils Large Numbers Best Teacher All The Best

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)

“Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.”

Thinking Giving Should Feelings Would Be Interest Numbers Learning Aim Passing Passings Immense Strain Tedious Initiate Homeschooling Full Life

Book:School Education

Source: School Education

“It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix: but it is the frequency and the earnestness with which you meditate on these things, till the truth which may be in them becomes your own, and part of your own being, that ensures your spiritual growth.”

Book Truth Growth Numbers Learning Variety Sermons Frequency Earnestness

Author:Frederick William Robertson

“The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.”

Names Numbers Learning Teacher Teaching Theory Overwhelming

Author:Alfie Kohn

“If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.”

“The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.”

Important Left Chance Numbers Learning Generations Programming Statistics Amusing Programmers Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language Computer Programmers Programming Funny

Author:Robert Coveyou

“The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.”

Purpose Numbers Learning Mathematics Insight Math Programming Statistics Mathematician Computer Programming Computer Science Programming Languages Computer Language Computing Math And Science Mathematics And Science Numbers And Math Great Math

Author:Richard Hamming

“I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time.”

Ifs Needs Made Numbers Learning Design Errors Programming Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language

Author:Tony Hoare

“If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of all of them, and this is the role of abstraction. If you look at each too closely you see too many details. If you get far away things may appear simpler because you can only see the large, broad outlines; you do not get lost in petty details.”

Ifs Looks May Ideas Lost Views Numbers Roles Learning Distance Details Programming Broads Far Away Abstraction Petty Outlines Large Numbers

Author:John G. Kemeny