Author of quotes: Vladimir I. Arnold

"No star wars - no mathematics" - say the Americans. The unfortunate fact that with the cessation of military confrontation between mathematics, like all fundamental science ceased to be financed, is a disgrace to modern civilization, recognizing only "applied" science behaving absolutely like a pig under an oak.

Newton, Euler, Gauss, poincaré, Kolmogorov - only five lives separate us from the beginnings of our science.

The most important thing a student must learn from a teacher, is that some issue has not been resolved.

The computer revolution allows you to replace educated slaves ignorant.

Liz is a student studying art history at Harvard. On the French lesson she was asked whether she was in France ("Yes"), in Paris ("Yes"), did Notre Dame Cathedral ("Yes"), whether he liked it ("No!!!"). "Why?" - asked the teacher. "He's so old," replied Liz.

He who has not learned the art of proof in school, unable to distinguish correct reasoning from incorrect. Such people can be easily manipulated by irresponsible politicians. The result may be mass hypnosis and social upheaval. Leo Tolstoy wrote that the power of government is based on ignorance of the people that the government is aware of this and therefore will always fight against enlightenment of the people.

American colleagues explained to me that "low level of General culture and schooling in their country - for the conscious achievement of economic goals. The fact is that, having read books, educated people is getting worst by the buyer: he buys less, and washing machines, and cars, begins to prefer them Mozart or van Gogh, Shakespeare, or theorem. It hurts the economy of a consumer society and, above all, the incomes of owners of life, so they tend to prevent cultural and education (which, in addition, prevent them to manipulate the population as deprived of intelligence herd)".