The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
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Nationality: English Type: Mathematician Born: February 17, 1890 Death: July 29, 1962 |
“I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.”
“It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.”