Quotes

//"A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be // //filled." -- Plutarch //

//And what are these same evanescent increments? // //They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. // //May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities? - Bishop George Berkeley //

//Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity. -Bishop George Berkeley //

//"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a // //million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire // //works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we // //know this is not true." -- Professor Robert Silensky //

//"Mathematics is like love; a simple idea, but it can get complicated.” //

//"Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man." ~W. B. Smith //

//"Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics." ~Dean Schlicter //

//"How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, // //is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality? ~Einstein //

//"I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer, and I take a substantial amount of pride in the accomplishments of my profession." // //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Neil Armstrong 1930 - 2012 //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“The man who has ceased to learn ought not be allowed to wander around loose.” // //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- M.M. Coady //