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"Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.”
– Plato
"Perfect numbers like perfect individuals are very rare.”
-- Descartes
"Wherever there are numbers, there is beauty."
-- Proclus
"After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone beyond it in any but the most superficial way.”
-- Isaac Asimov
"Natural numbers are better for your health.”
"Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is
necessary to use logic." -- Pierre Boatroux
Math Quotes"Music is the pleasure the human mind
experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
-- Leibniz
Good math teachers are like…
• Hallmark cards: cares enough to give the best.
• Coke: is the real thing. • General Electric: has a lot to
give. • Tide: gets the stain out that
others leave behind. • VO-5 hair spray: holds
through all kinds of weather.
“A good teacher is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”
-- Godwin, Gail (b. 1937) American writer
"Do not worry too much about your difficulties in mathematics,
I can assure you that mine are still greater."
-- Albert Einstein
Math Quotes
"The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.”
"The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately
connected with the prosperity of the state."
-- Napoleon
“Calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.”
-- W. F. Osgood
"Calculus has its limits.”
"Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a
computer.”
"The notion of infinity is our greatest friend;
it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind."
-- James Pierpont
“Good teachers are usually a little crazy.” -- Rooney, Andy (b. 1919) American journalist
"Pure mathematics is, in its way,the poetry of logical ideas."
-- Albert Einstein
"We have to reinvent the wheel every once in a while, not because we need a lot of wheels;
but because we need a lot of inventors." -- Bruce Joyce
"Mathematics is the gate and key to the sciences."
-- Roger Bacon
"All the effects of nature are only mathematical results of a small
number of immutable laws." -- La Place
"Geometry existed before creation.”
-- Plato
"It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet
in soul."
-- Sophia Kovalevskaya
"Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency."
-- Descartes
"It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician."
-- de Morgan
"There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract,
which may not someday be applied to the phenomena of the
real world." -- Nicolai Lobachevsky
"Decimals have a point."
Math Quotes
"An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages."
-- de Fontenelle
"Black holes are where the creator divided by zero."
-- Steven Wright
"Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world."
-- Alfred North Whitehead
Good math teachers are like…
• Ivory soap: is 100% pure. • Cheerios: makes you feel
groovy. • Frosted Flakes: makes you
feel gr-r-r-reat. • Sears: has everything. • Master Charge: is good for
emergencies.
"The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful;
he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful."
-- Henri Poincare
"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here.”
-- inscription above Plato's Academy
"There is geometry in the humming of the string."
-- Pythagoras
"Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.”
-- George Polya
"Imagination is more important
than knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein
"A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there."
-- Charles Darwin
(quoted by Jaime Escalante in the film, STAND and DELIVER)
“God ever geometrizes." -- Plato
"The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit."
-- Alfred North Whitehead
"There are no solved problems;there are only problems that are more
or less solved."
-- Henri Poincare
"I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics.
I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for
argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it."
-- Malcolm X
"He who
can properly
define and divide is to
be considered
a god.”
-- Plato
"The science of Pure Mathematics,
in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original
creation of the human spirit."
-- Alfred North Whitehead
"Mathematics is written for mathematicians.”
-- Copernicus
"Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
-- E.T. Bell
"Well done is better than well said."
-- Ben Franklin
"Teaching is the royal road to learning."
-- Jassamyn West
"We only think when confronted
with a problem.”
-- John Dewey
"Polar coordinates
aren't justarctic
fashions."
"The union of the
mathematician with the poet,
fervor with measure,
passion with correctness,
this surely is the ideal."
-- William James
"I was x years old in the year x^2.”
-- Augustus De Morgan (when asked about his age)
Funny Math Test Answer…
"I do not
teach, I relate.”
-- Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
"The more you know, the less sure you are.”
-- Voltaire
"The most important questions in life are,
for the most part,really only problems of probability."
-- Pierre Simon de La Place
"Life is too short for long division.”
"Mathematics is no more computation
than typing is literature."
-- John Allen Paulos
\"I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
-- Chinese Proverb
"Mathematics is not a spectator sport!"