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In the use of this method (of infinities) the pupil must be awake and thinking, for when the infinite is employed in an argument by the unskilled, the conclusion is often most absurd.
Elisha Scott Loomis
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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Elisha Scott Loomis
Born:
September 18, 1852
Died:
December 11, 1940
(aged 88)
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Elisha Scott Loomis was an American teacher, mathematician, genealogist, writer and engineer.
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