Assist Quotes (2)
Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio
Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.
Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.
In Jon R. Stone, The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations (2005), 78.
Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in the chain of reasoning, and if satisfied that the conclusions were correct, he was content to insert the constantly recurring formula, 'Il est àisé a voir' [it is easy to see].
History of Mathematics (3rd Ed., 1901), 427.
See also: | Anecdote (14) | Jean-Baptiste Biot (3) | Conclusion (24) | Content (6) | Correct (5) | Detail (7) | Easy (5) | Pierre-Simon Laplace (41) | Proof (59) | Reasoning (27) | Revise (3) | Satisfy (3)
