Robert Recorde quotes
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“Exercise is the beste intrument in learnyng.”
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“To avoide the tediouse repetition of these woordes: is equalle to: I will settle as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of paralleles, or gemowe [twin] lines of one lengthe: =, bicause noe .2. thynges, can be moare equalle.”
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“Wherefore in all great works are Clerks so much desired? Wherefore are Auditors so well-fed? What causeth Geometricians so highly to be enhaunsed? Why are Astronomers so greatly advanced? Because that by number such things they find, which else would farre excell mans minde.”
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“Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.”
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“First, you must know what the thing is, and then after learn the use of the same.”
-- Robert Recorde
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Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.95, Cosimo, Inc.
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Source : "A Stormy Relationship With the Scale: an Interview With Al Roker". Interview with Bonnie Taub-Dix, bonnietaubdix.com.
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“So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.”
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