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, ….

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reas….

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork..

I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them..

I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn..

Whatever power I exert is collegial..

What's your hurry? There is nothing up ahead that's any better than it is right here..

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond..

Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics..

don't do things that kill you..

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I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed..

You work for whatever you get in life..

You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules..

I like to listen the blues and some classical..

Right now, we happen to be in a general period of regression, not just in education. A lot of what's happening is sort of backlash to the 60s; the 60….

When he [Joe Lewis] was asked upon his retirement about his long career, Joe sweetly summed it up in just ten words. 'I did the best I could with wha….

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken..

Meaning, not beauty, is what we are after..

The future's here, we are it, we are on our own.