Quotes About Blackboard

We, like most humans, consider history a lesson on a blackboard that can be sponged off.

When I was in school, I was too short to erase the blackboard. It was my job to put away the chairs.

One of Oppenheimer's students, the American theoretical physicist Philip Morrison, recalls that "when fission was discovered, within perhaps a week there was on the blackboard in Robert Oppenheimer's office a drawing—a very bad, an execrable drawing—of a bomb.

the blackboard which was to serve for demonstrations was represented by a very elegant young priest who I suppose celebrated the law of falling bodies as a mass is celebrated.

Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.

Going to the blackboard at school was the worst torture.

Arabella ran out of blackboard space, crouched, and began dividing on the floor. "This is what we get for teaching them Common Core," one of the arbiters said. "There is nothing wrong with Common Core," someone else said. Arabella

But the longer I'm dead, the more I think the universe is a big blackboard with rules scrawled all over it in chalk and stardust and it's just that the damn thing is flipped over and turned away from us so we can't see anything but the erase, which death, hitting the floor.

But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.

At the behest of Princeton's President, all of Einstein's lectures were very technical. They included more than one hundred and twenty-five complex equations that he scribbled on the blackboard while speaking in German. As one student admitted to a reporter, I sat in the balcony but he talked right over my head anyway.

Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.

We stopped by the blackboard and saw that the fishing had been upgraded to "good." Woody had recommended minnows for bait and chalked in "Browns around Pepperwood Island." "Let's add a note," Jack said. "Skeletons by Prentice Point.

Dick Feynman was a genius of visualization (he was also no slouch with equations): he made a mental picture of anything he was working on. While others were writing blackboard-filling formulas to express the laws of elementary particles, he would just draw a picture and figure out the answer.

When they were in second class, Sister Joyce Mary chalked a picture of the three-leafed shamrock on the blackboard to illustrate how "the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost were three persons but one God." Gemma's hand shot into the air. "Like triplets! Like us!" The nun winced. "I'm afraid the Kettle girls are not like the Holy Trinity!" "Yes, but I think we are, Sister," said Gemma kindly.

Hannah wanted to put the next day's work on the blackboard. This would mean that she needn't turn her back on the class first thing, which is as unwise in junior teaching as in lion-taming.

Within a week of Hahn's discovery, American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer sketched a crude bomb on his blackboard.