Education Quote by Arthur Eddington Download Open image “Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.” — Arthur Eddington ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Idols Knowledge Logic Math Mathematician Mathematics Proof Torture
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A mathematician is an individual who proves his beliefs with equations.” — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science. — Mary Somerville Copy Share Image
Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,… — Andrew Hodges Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“...and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.” — W.W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
“A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed by everyone.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them;… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
The universe will finally become a ball of radiation, becoming more and more rarified and passing into longer and longer wave-lengths. The longest waves… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
