High School Reading Grades 11 12 Quiz
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Dr. Halvorsen's lectures were famously punishing. He would stand at the blackboard, his chalk carving equations like an archaeologist working stone, and pause only to deliver what his students called his "aphorisms of despair." One favorite: "The only way to truly understand a problem is to fail to solve it, then fail again, more thoroughly." Another: "Certainty is the disease of the underinformed." His graduate seminar, half in awe and half in exhaustion, transcribed these lines into a shared document that grew, over the years, into a kind of scripture.
Dr. Halvorsen's statement, "The only way to truly understand a problem is to fail to solve it, then fail again, more thoroughly," functions as a paradox because it:
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