A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation..

It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to challenge and to modif….

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn..

Never Explain Anything.

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation..

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear..

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method..

A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, ….

There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be..

There will always be an underground..

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principl….

With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is ….

I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places….

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be ….

There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less..

Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself..

Things are not going to improve for you in life until YOU improve.

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least..

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government..

You can make anything out of anything..

There is no later. This is later..