Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have… — George Polya Copy Share Image
I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“That this blind and aging man forged ahead with such gusto is a remarkable lesson, a tale for the ages. Euler's courage,… — William Dunham Copy Share Image
For most problems found in mathematics textbooks, mathematical reasoning is quite useful. But how often do people find textbook problems in real… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
There's actually an awful lot of mathematics that goes into designing a railway, keeping it running, making sure everything runs optimally. Every… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is… — Hendrik Verwoerd Copy Share Image
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
“In the online math class, there was almost no meaningful student/teacher or student/student interaction. To equate this type of online learning with… — Ian Lamont Copy Share Image
I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“But, as powerful mathematicians like Minkowski and Hilbert found striking harmony between their pure mathematical results and the workings of the physical… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it need only patience to ransack;… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this;… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In general, I'm in support of promoting art and science in public schools. I think music and science are probably the most… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
“Our experience teaches us that there are indeed laws of nature, regularities in the way things behave, and that these laws are… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“To the average mathematician who merely wants to know his work is securely based, the most appealing choice is to avoid difficulties… — Paul Joseph Cohen Copy Share Image
[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact” with extraterrestrials. I am invited to “ask them anything.” And so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“In our own time, algebra has become the most rarefied and demanding of all mental disciplines, whose objects are abstractions of abstractions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Our fixation with STEM erodes our sensitivity to the nonlinear shifts that occur in all human behavior and dulls our natural ability… — Christian Madsbjerg Copy Share Image
“It is well known that geometry presupposes not only the concept of space but also the first fundamental notions for constructions in… — Bernhard Riemann Copy Share Image
Most of all, a good maths education encourages students to embrace difficult problems, not shy away from them. In my opinion, the… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“once all real numbers are taken into account, every point on the line corresponds to exactly one real number and every real… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
“We're not doing maths again?' Harriet lamented. Lord Winstead looked at Anne with unconcealed curiosity. 'Mathematics? On Rotten Row?' 'We have been… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I obviously pursued a career in the arts but always wondered if I had just been supported a little more in math,… — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
Legal training has been quite useful in developing critical thinking. Whether one attains it in mathematics, philosophy or law, an analytic grounding… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
“Harley begins to panic. “Coming to Earth?! Our Earth? But I don’t want to die. There is so much I haven’t done… — Peter Patrick Copy Share Image
I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That… — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
“The MathWorld entry currently ends with the quiet plea: 'A modern survey would be welcome.' All we seem to be doing at… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished.… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
![“There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is the use of teaching the Bantu child mathematics when it cannot use it in practice? That is quite absurd. Education must train people in accordance with their opportunities in life…” quote by Hendrik Verwoerd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf0/hendrik-verwoerd-106629_absurd_there-is-no-place-for-the-bantu-in-the-e_2184958.png)
![“I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the difficulties. One thing is certain, however, that never in life have I been quite so tormented. A great respect for mathematics has been instilled…” quote by Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12f/albert-einstein-33_aspect_i-am-exclusively-occupied-with-the-probl_237088.jpg)
![“[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy, or theology] ...There can be, without any question at all, as good higher mathematics about a turnip as about a man. But I do not think, though I speak in a manner…” quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05b/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_accounts_there-is-one-distinctly-human-thing-the_3013143.jpg)
![“It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He can't read, can't drive a car, and has no grasp of mathematics. But in his own field of endeavor, which he is now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and…” quote by John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a42/john-steinbeck-71_anointing_it-is-my-experience-that-in-some-areas-m_804959.jpg)
