A Quote by Johnny Ball

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

Johnny Ball

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Applications Difficult Elegance How Mathematics Need Seems Sometimes Understood Universities Want Widely

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Johnny Ball
British - Entertainer
Born: May 23, 1938

I can't emphasise enough how grateful I am to have come upon sobriety.

Naveen Andrews

Anyone who was been injured for a long period can emphasise how happy you are when you are able to be back on the pitch.

Mario Gotze

We need to organise unapologetically anti-racist campaigns in our communities, ones that emphasise the fact that the blame for social ills lies with the powerful.

Owen Jones

We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.

Sergei Lavrov

Don't emphasise money if you don't have much; be happy

Dave Barry

If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.

Pope John XXIII

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

John Key

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

Edsger Dijkstra

My discipline in myself has got me where I am. I try to emphasise that to young players.

Craig Bellamy

I don't think that one moment in people's life should define them. Within reason: I emphasise that.

Santan Dave

I cannot emphasise enough how important exercise is. I have to do at least a three-mile fast walk a day, usually in the afternoon. Movement is incredibly important in helping my body use up my energy.

Toyah Willcox

We emphasise the features on satellite maps by adding colours to farmland, urban structures, archaeological sites, vegetation and water.

Sarah Parcak

The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.

Bertrand Russell

I am writing to make sure that kids don't lose very important traits like curiosity that can drive social change because oftentimes I think parents emphasise more on doing well in school, which is important, but perhaps that sometimes comes at the cost of a child's natural curiosity.

Adora Svitak

This was pointed out to me by somebody who referred to the paintings of Rembrandt and his use of light: some elements are highlighted while others are obscured or even pushed back into the dark. And it's something that we do - we bring out elements that we want to emphasise.