The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of difficulties and paradoxes which instructors now invite us to solve in a few minutes.
It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which people ("& why") is drug A better than d… - Lancelot Hogben
It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which people ("& why") is drug A better than d…
- Lancelot Hogben
The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of difficult… - Lancelot Hogben
The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of difficult…
Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic … - Lancelot Hogben
Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic …
This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men wh… - Lancelot Hogben
This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men wh…
With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in … - Lancelot Hogben
With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in …
There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations. - Lancelot Hogben
There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.
Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the n… - Lancelot Hogben
Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the n…
Mathematics is the language of size. - Lancelot Hogben
Mathematics is the language of size.
There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO. - Lancelot Hogben
There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.
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