Words of Wisdom

"Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano; you can learn it only by imitation and practice ... if you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water, and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems."

G. Polya

"If you cannot solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you cannot solve: find it."

G. Polya

"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

Isaac Newton

"If I have seen further than other men; it is because I have been standing on the shoulders of giants."

Isaac Newton

"What can be done with fewer is done in vain with more."

William of Ockham

"Common sense is the deposit of prejudice laid down in the mind before the age of eighteen."

Albert Einstein

"Nature and Nature’s Laws lay hid in Night;
God said, Let Newton be: and all was Light."

Alexander Pope

"Pythagoras’s theorem provides us with an equation that is true of all right-angled triangles and that therefore also defines the right angle itself. In turn, the right angle defines the perpendicular and the perpendicular defines the dimensions—length, width, and height—of the space in which we live. Ultimately mathematics, via the right-angled triangle, defines the very structure of our three-dimensional world."

Simon Singh