The Compleat Angler Is Acknowledged

Most People Tire Of A Lecture In Ten Minutes; Clever People Can Do It In Five. Sensible People Never Go To Lectures At All. But The People Who Do Go To A Lecture And Who Get Tired Of It, Presently Hold It As A Sort Of Grudge Against The Lecturer Personally. In Reality His Sufferings Are Worse Than Theirs.

Writing Is No Trouble: You Just Jot Down Ideas As They Occur To You. The Jotting Is Simplicity Itself - It Is The Occurring Which Is Difficult.

How Can You Shorten The Subject? That Stern Struggle With The Multiplication Table, For Many People Not Yet Ended In Victory, How Can You Make It Less? Square Root, As Obdurate As A Hardwood Stump In A Pasturenothing But Years Of Effort Can Extract It. You Can't Hurry The Process. Or Pass From Arithmetic To Algebra; You Can't Shoulder Your Way Past Quadratic Equations Or Ripple Through The Binomial Theorem. Instead, The Other Way; Your Feet Are Impeded In The Tangled Growth, Your Pace Slackens, You Sink And Fall Somewhere Near The Binomial Theorem With The Calculus In Sight On The Horizon.

Astronomy Teaches The Correct Use Of The Sun And The Planets.

It's A Lie, But Heaven Will Forgive You For It.