Math Quotes

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Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have no more to… — Keith Devlin
I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4. — Rosie O'Donnell
Wherever there is a number, there is beauty. — Proclus
Mathematics is the gate and key to science. — Roger Bacon
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead
There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved. — Henri Poincare
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. — Rene Descartes
Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic. — Pierre Boutroux
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. — Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation. — Paul Halmos
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition. — Morris Kline
Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths. — Morris Kline
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ... — Paul Halmos
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... — Lynn Steen
Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics. — John A. Van de Walle
Logic doesn't apply to the real world. — Marvin Minsky
We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create… — Jaime Escalante
"Ganas is all you need." — Jaime Escalante
I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it. — Jaime Escalante

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