Development Quote by Alexander Tsiaras

Mathematicians are born, not made.

— Henri Poincare

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

— Francis Crick

In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

— Hermann Hankel

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds…

— Hermann Hankel

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words;…

— Mal Peet

Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one universal science…

— Henry John Stephen Smith

What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of…

— Lynn Steen

Humans need simplifications in order to understand almost anything complex. That's one of our basic biases!

— Bryan Johnson

“progressive enrichment of children’s intuitions, leaning heavily on their precocious understanding of quantitative manipulations and of counting. One should first arouse their curiosity with…

— Stanislas Dehaene

“An innate sense of approximate numerical quantities may well be embedded in our genes; but when faced with exact symbolic calculation, we lack proper…

— Stanislas Dehaene

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a…

— Immanuel Kant