"There are, as I have said, some minds which can go on contemplating
with satisfaction pure quantities presented to the eye by symbols,
and to the mind in a form which none but mathematicians can conceive.
There are others who feel more enjoyment in following geometrical
forms, which they draw on paper, or build up in the empty space
before them. Others, again, are not content unless they can project
their whole physical energies into the scene which they conjure up.
They learn at what a rate the planets rush through space and they
experience a delightful feeling of exhilaration. They calculate the
forces with which the heavenly bodies pull at one another, and they
feel their own muscles straining with the effort. To such men
momentum, energy, mass are not mere abstract expressions of the
results of scientific inquiry. They are words of power, which stir
their souls like the memories of childhood. For the sake of persons
of these different types, scientific truth should be presented in
different forms, and should be regarded as equally scientific,
whether it appears in the robust form and the vivid coloring of a
physical illustration, or in the tenuity and paleness of a symbolic
expression. "
J. C. Maxwell Address to the Mathematical and Physical Sections of
the British Association. Liverpool, September 15, 1870. In The
Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell W. D. Niven Editor. Volume
2 p . 220 Paris Librarie scientifique J. Hermann (By Arrangement
with the Cambridge University Press.)
Winning coaches, for example, recognize the different learning styles
of their players. Former Raiders coach John Madden says that for
some players you simply tell them the play and they know it; others
must be shown diagrams before they can form their own mental image of
what to do; and still others won't really grasp the play until they
physically run through it so that they can feel the play as well as
see and hear it. The same is true for the "coaches" of military
recruits and corporate training programs.
Quoted in The Now Habit by Neil A. Fiore page 180
Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc. Los Angeles CA 1989 ISBN 0-87477-504-3
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