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"Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.” – Plato

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"Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.”

– Plato

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"Perfect numbers like perfect individuals are very rare.”

-- Descartes

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"Wherever there are numbers, there is beauty."

-- Proclus

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"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

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"Natural numbers are better for your health.”

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"Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is

necessary to use logic." -- Pierre Boatroux

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Math Quotes"Music is the pleasure the human mind

experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."

-- Leibniz

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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.

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 “A good teacher is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”

-- Godwin, Gail (b. 1937) American writer

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"Do not worry too much about your difficulties in mathematics,

I can assure you that mine are still greater."

-- Albert Einstein

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Math Quotes

"The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.”

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"The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately

connected with the prosperity of the state."

-- Napoleon

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“Calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.”

-- W. F. Osgood

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"Calculus has its limits.”

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"Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a

computer.”

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"The notion of infinity is our greatest friend;

it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind."

-- James Pierpont

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“Good teachers are usually a little crazy.” -- Rooney, Andy (b. 1919) American journalist

 

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"Pure mathematics is, in its way,the poetry of logical ideas."

-- Albert Einstein

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"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

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"Mathematics is the gate and key to the sciences."

-- Roger Bacon

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"All the effects of nature are only mathematical results of a small

number of immutable laws." -- La Place

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"Geometry existed before creation.”

-- Plato

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"It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet

in soul."

-- Sophia Kovalevskaya

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"Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency."

-- Descartes

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"It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician."

-- de Morgan

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"There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract,

which may not someday be applied to the phenomena of the

real world." -- Nicolai Lobachevsky

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"Decimals have a point."

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Math Quotes

"An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages."

-- de Fontenelle

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"Black holes are where the creator divided by zero."

-- Steven Wright

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"Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

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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.

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"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

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"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here.”

-- inscription above Plato's Academy

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"There is geometry in the humming of the string."

-- Pythagoras

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"Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.”

-- George Polya

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"Imagination is more important

than knowledge."

-- Albert Einstein

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"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)

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“God ever geometrizes." -- Plato

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"The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

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"There are no solved problems;there are only problems that are more

or less solved."

-- Henri Poincare

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"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

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"He who

can properly

define and divide is to

be considered

a god.”

-- Plato

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"The science of Pure Mathematics,

in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original

creation of the human spirit."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

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"Mathematics is written for mathematicians.”

-- Copernicus

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"Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics."

-- E.T. Bell

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"Well done is better than well said."

-- Ben Franklin

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"Teaching is the royal road to learning."

-- Jassamyn West

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"We only think when confronted

with a problem.”

-- John Dewey

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"Polar coordinates

aren't justarctic

fashions."

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"The union of the

mathematician with the poet,

fervor with measure,

passion with correctness,

this surely is the ideal."

-- William James

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"I was x years old in the year x^2.”

-- Augustus De Morgan (when asked about his age)

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Funny Math Test Answer…

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"I do not

teach, I relate.”

-- Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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"The more you know, the less sure you are.”

-- Voltaire

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"The most important questions in life are,

for the most part,really only problems of probability."

-- Pierre Simon de La Place

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"Life is too short for long division.”

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"Mathematics is no more computation

than typing is literature."

-- John Allen Paulos

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\"I hear and I forget.

I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

-- Chinese Proverb

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"Mathematics is not a spectator sport!"