“Are you sure you are not merely "programmed" in life by what by chance events happens to you?”
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
Context: When you take a course in Euclidean geometry is not the teacher putting a... learning program into you?... You enter the course and cannot do problems; the teacher puts into you a program and at the end of the course you can solve such problems.... Are you sure you are not merely "programmed" in life by what by chance events happens to you?
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American mathematician and information theorist 1915–1998Related quotes
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