Mathematics Quote by AJ-mlpfim Download Open image ““Don't you use your fancy mathematics to muddy the issue!”” — AJ-mlpfim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mathematics
“It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is a tool which ideally permits mediocre minds to solve complicated problems expeditiously.” — Floyd Alburn Firestone Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it may be,… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
There's no reason for men to be better at maths than women - it's just about our perception. — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share
In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
“How in the world did I ever find you?” Mackenzie Winters “Math class.” Brandon Knight” — Bella Jeanisse Copy Share Image
“One is the notion that knowledge is worth acquiring, all knowledge, and that a solid grounding in mathematics provides one with the essential language of many of the most important forms of knowledge. The third theme is that, while it is desirable to live peaceably, there are things worth fighting for and values worth dying for—and that it is far… — William H. Patterson Jr Copy Share
“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration of the famous Postulatum of Euclid , relative to the theory of parallels. This demonstration rested on an obvious paralogism, which appeared as such to everybody; and probably Lagrange also recognised it such during his lecture. For, when… — Jean-Baptiste Biot Copy Share
“We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we can learn it like any other, including our own. We have to learn our own language twice, first when we learn to speak it, second when we learn to read it. Fortunately, mathematics has to be learned only… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share
The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony? — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image