Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he said, students on the average remember only about 40% of what you tell them, the thing to do is to cram into each course 250% of what you hope will stick.

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.

Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants.

I read once that the true mark of a pro - at anything - is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.

... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams."

The heart of mathematics is its problems.