Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Math

Quotes about: Math

• Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Learning, Math, Shoes

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

• Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Jobs, Dad, Math

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

• From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Teaching, Math, Important

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