Lillian R. Lieber > Quotes

“Without a theory, a plan,
the mere mechanical manipulation
of the numbers in a problem
does not necessarily make sense
just because you are
using Arithmetic!”
― Lillian R. Lieber, The Education of T.C. Mits: What modern mathematics means to you

“This is not intended to be
free verse.
Writing each phrase on a separate line
facilitates rapid reading,
and everyone
is in a hurry
nowadays.”
― Lillian R. Lieber, The Education of T.C. Mits: What modern mathematics means to you

“Some of our hunches are RIGHT
and some of them are WRONG.
The only way to tell
which is which
is to FOLLOW the hunch and
check it up.”
― Lillian R. Lieber, The Education of T.C. Mits: What modern mathematics means to you

“Science and Mathematics can
not only protect us from
floods and lightning and disease
and other such physical dangers,
but have within them
a PHILOSOPHY which
can protect us from
the errors of our own
loose thinking.”
― Lillian R. Lieber, The Education of T.C. Mits: What modern mathematics means to you

“The trouble with the world today
is not that
we have too much Mathematics,
but that we do not yet have enough.”
― Lillian R. Lieber, The Education of T.C. Mits: What modern mathematics means to you

“A person who can
be loyal to such
abstract concepts as
truth, justice, freedom, reason,
rather than to
an individual or a place,
has the loyalty of a human being
rather than that of a dog.”
― Lillian R. Lieber, The Education of T.C. Mits: What modern mathematics means to you