To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
— Richard Feynman
One morning in 1939, a young doctoral student named George Bernard Dantzig hurried into his statistics class at the University of California, Berkeley—late.
The blackboard was already packed with equations. Professor Jerzy Neyman, one of the leading statisticians of the time, was about to erase it.
“Just a moment,” Dantzig asked, quickly copying everything down. Among the notes were two problems, which he assumed were ordinary homework assignments.
At home, Dantzig noticed something strange. These problems were far harder than usual. Still, he worked on them relentlessly and eventually found solutions—so late, in fact, that he handed them in with an apology.
Neyman barely looked up. “Just leave them on my desk,” he said, pointing to a chaotic pile of papers.
Weeks passed.
Then, one Sunday morning, there was a knock at Dantzig’s door. It was Professor Neyman—excited, holding a stack of typed pages.
“Read this immediately,” Neyman said. “I’m submitting it for publication today.”
Dantzig was stunned. His “homework” had become a research paper.
What he had copied from the blackboard were not assignments at all, but two famous statistical conjectures that had resisted proof for years. Unaware of their reputation, Dantzig had simply treated them as difficult exercises—and solved them.
That same student would later become the father of linear programming, inventing the simplex algorithm, a cornerstone of modern optimization and operations research.
Sometimes, the biggest breakthroughs happen when you don’t know something is supposed to be impossible.
As humans, we are impatient. We want it all and we want it now. Growth doesn't work like that. Fruit starts from a seed, and so does the fruit that grows in the life of the Christian. Ask God to cultivate the soil of your heart today and comment FRUIT.
Tropical Cyclone Freddy:
- Evacuation centres set up
- Boarding schools remain open but suspend lessons on Friday
- Day scholars in affected areas can have Friday off to reduce risk
- Artisanal miners should avoid going underground
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Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:3-5
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isaiah 49:25
But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
God never intended the churches to be full of people, but that the people be full of God.
But ye shall receive POWER, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Acts 1:8 KJV
that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Ephesians 3:16-19
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith;
For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless. (Psalms 84:11
““ LORD, if I argued my case with you, you would prove to be right. Yet I must question you about matters of justice. Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why do dishonest people succeed?”
Jeremiah 12:1 GNB https://t.co/ZVjo03cJdt
Lamentations 3:21-23
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.