“You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods..The method produces numerous results; a few of these will remain in our memory, and as long as they remain few, they are useful to illustrate and to keep alive the rules which order a thousand results.” ShouldMindLongOrderNamesMemoriesResultsNumbersAliveProduceThousandMethodIsolatedIncidentsOur Memories Book:Lasker's Manual of Chess Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess
“In this science the illustrations and examples are not confined in their effect merely to the practice they afford in the analytical art, but [...] they also store the mind with independent geometrical and physical knowledge. Besides, it should be considered, that the only effectual method of impressing abstract formulae and rules upon the memory, and, indeed, of making them fully and clearly apprehended by the understanding, is by examples of their practical application.” ShouldMindArtUnderstandingMemoriesPracticeEffectsExampleIndependentMethodStoresPracticalsAbstractApplicationImpressConfinedIllustration Author:Dionysius Lardner