Edmund Hlawka Quotes

Die mathematische Forschung besteht aus 10% Intuition und 90% Arbeit.

Edmund Hlawka

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• I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Time
  • Baby
  • Married

• Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

  

  Plato
  • Children
  • Train
  • Direct

• Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Change
  • Reason
  • Evidence

• Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Sports
  • Destiny
  • Alas

• People have to realize that the air we breathe and the water we drink come from the ocean and will go back to the ocean one way or another, no matter how far away we may be from it. It's a perpetual cycle.

  

  Walter Munk
  • Water
  • Air
  • Ocean

• I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want!

  

  Annie Elizabeth Delany
  • Age
  • Old

• ...like a predator about to devour the target.

  

  Alan Parry
  • Target
  • Predator
  • Devour

• Be as much troubled by unjust praises, as by unjust slanders.

  

  Philip Henry
  • Troubled
  • Unjust
  • Praises

• Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Friendship
  • Meaning
  • Class

• Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.

  

  Barbara Ann Kipfer
  • Life
  • Center
  • Maximum

• We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.

  

  Alan Wolfe
  • Used
  • Move
  • Issue

• Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.

  

  David Bezmozgis
  • People
  • Different
  • Language

• No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.

  

  David Penman
  • People
  • Church
  • Encouragement

• I wouldn't walk across the street to piss down Don Shula's throat if he was on fire.

  

  Johnny Unitas
  • Fire
  • Street
  • Across

• Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

  

  Raymond E. Feist
  • Benefits
  • Altruism
  • Gutters

• Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Four

• Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

  

  John Arbuthnot
  • Men
  • Study
  • Hours

• The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses.

  

  Farkas Bolyai
  • Mathematical
  • Heights
  • Embraces

• Those of us who teach math should try to turn this bug into a feature. We should be up front about the fact that word problems force us to make simplifying assumptions. That’s a valuable skill—it’s called mathematical modeling.

  

  Steven Strogatz
  • Teach
  • Skill
  • Mathematical

• Die mathematische Forschung besteht aus 10% Intuition und 90% Arbeit.

  

  Edmund Hlawka
  • Mathematical