Quotations
- "That student is taught the best who is told the least." Moore, quote in Parker (2005: vii).
- "I hear, I forget. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Chinese proverb that was a favorite of Moore's. Quoted in Halmos, P.R. (1985) I want to be a mathematician: an automathography. Springer-Verlag: 258)
- "You are welcome to take my course but you start with a C and can only go down from there." Moore, in response to W.E. Hunt's intention to take a Topology course Moore taught, quote in S. W. Williams R. L. Moore: racist mathematician unveiled (2005). W.E. Hunt was black, and later went on to become a Professor of Mathematics.
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