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Great results in science and engineering are "bunched" in the same person too often for success to be a matter of random luck.
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
Statistics should be taught early so that the concepts are absorbed by the student's flexible, adaptable mind before it is too late.
Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)
The beauty of mathematics often makes the subject matter much more attractive and easier to master.
Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)
Science is supposed to be cumulative, not almost endless duplication of the same kind of things.
One Man's View of Computer Science (1969)
Teachers should prepare the student for the student's future, not for the teacher's past.
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
Unforeseen technological inventions can completely upset the most careful predictions.
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
Either you will be a leader, or a follower, and my goal is for you to be a leader.
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
There are so many ways of being wrong and so few ways of being right that it is much more economical to study successes.
Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)
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