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“Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history.”

Years Mind Ideas Different Three Growth Brain Week Childhood Century Theory Months Billions Scales Fleeting

Author:Marvin Minsky

“Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by this month seem only stirred to lamentation, giving us year end and 'melancholy days' remarks, thereby showing that theory is stronger than observation among the rhyming brotherhood, or else that they have chronic indigestion and no gardens to stimulate them.”

Source: The garden of a commuter's wife

“My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a reporter of our university newspaper, who admitted that he is still learning English, wrote that "Prof. Goldston solved one of the most controversial problems in the prime number theory last month with support from his Turkish partner."”

“A month's intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10 times as entertaining as the same amount of 'calculus for engineers'.”

Theory Months Ought Amount Intelligent Instruction Entertaining Engineers Calculus

Author:G. H. Hardy

“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.”

Two Left Creativity College Theory Months Innovation Independence Competition Rewards Curiosity Conformity Collaboration Application Schooled Two Months

Author:Dale J. Stephens

“Periods. We all get periods. Once a month, yeah. That's what the theory is”

Theory Months Periods Yeah

Author:Lily Allen