"I am often asked why I nearly always select old material, fairy tales and legends for my stage works. I do not look u…"

"Elemental Music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in w…"

"Experience first, then intellectualize."

"Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their int…"

"Tell me, I forget. Show me, I remember. Involve me, I understand."

"He did have much more than a straightforward musical experience in mind. He subtitled his exuberant hour-long oratori…"

"Dirichlet was not satisfied to study Gauss' "Disquisitiones arithmeticae" once or several times, but continued throug…"

"A peculiar beauty reigns in the realm of mathematics, a beauty which resembles not so much the beauty of art as the b…"

"Early Christian inscriptions confirm the Catholic doctrine of the Resurrection, the sacraments, the veneration of the…"

"In character he was amiable and virtuous."