#scholars

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? ↗

— Richard Courant

#alike #alone #answer #experience #itself

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#dice #down #i #mistake #never

I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

#fell #got #gymnastics #i #life

I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#called #degree #feature #fellowship #film

Scholars will argue with each other about everything. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#argue #each #everything #other #scholars

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#away #course #dry #everybody #get

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#fall #first #first time #get #girl

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#beginning #finally #get #infancy #passage

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#earlier #help #only #poets #read

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. ↗

— Peter Singer

#containing #dreamed #ever #everything #library