Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Roger Lewin

British Anthropologist, Scientist, Editor and Author, Staff member of New Scientist in London

"Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."

"It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up. "

"Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws. "