Elementary Quotes (7 quotes)

“Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes

tags: easy, elementary, sherlock-holmes, simple

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“Some people are exceptionally clear eyed. To them, nothing is ever too complex or mysterious. Answers invisible to most are in plain sight to these enlightened few. Their approach to the world is elementary and, without fail, right. They see through false complications and find the simple truths of life. Mildred was blessed with this lucidity.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

tags: answers, elementary, enlightenment, lucidity, simplicity, truth

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“It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“It is the dull and elementary parts of applied mathematics, as it is the dull and elementary parts of pure mathematics, that work for good or ill. Time may change all this. No one foresaw the applications of matrices and groups and other purely mathematical theories to modern physics, and it may be that some of the 'highbrow' applied mathematics will become 'useful' in as unexpected a way; but the evidence so far points to the conclusion that, in one subject as in the other, it is what is commonplace and dull that counts for practical life.”
― G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology

tags: applied, elementary, group-theory, matrix, modern-physics, practical, pure-mathematics, usefulness

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“I mean real magic of course-- because in a few pages, you'll discover that this is a magical pencil box hat, which is pretty lucky really, because you don't find too many of those nowadays.”
― Dianne Bright, Gracie and the Magical Pencil Box Hat

tags: chapter-book, elementary, kids, magic

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“Naughty? Me? I'm just a sheepdog puppy who wants to have fun.”
― Saralyn Richard, Naughty Nana

tags: children-s-books, childrens-literature, elementary, illustrations, kidlit, kidlit-book-author-amwriting, lessons-learned, literacy-children, picture-books-for-kids, puppy-love

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“A lot of the pride I felt was overshadowed by guilt, and I’ve since poured over so many studies about how gifted programs mainly benefit white and wealthy students— not because they’re smarter, just because the whole goddamn system is rigged to their benefit.”
― Elise Bryant

tags: dei, education, elementary, gifted, reform

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