John G. Kemeny quotes
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“The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.”
-- John G. KemenySource : John G. Kemeny (1964). “Random Essays on Mathematics, Education, and Computers”
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“...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.”
-- John G. KemenySource : John G. Kemeny (1964). “Random Essays on Mathematics, Education, and Computers”
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“If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of all of them, and this is the role of abstraction. If you look at each too closely you see too many details. If you get far away things may appear simpler because you can only see the large, broad outlines; you do not get lost in petty details.”
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“The only reason psychology students don't have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven't yet discovered ways of dealing with problems as hard as those in psychology.”
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“A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull techniques in a highly varied career, why must all high school students devote several weeks to the subject?”
-- John G. Kemeny
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Source : A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
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“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
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