Math Quotes

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The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated. — Edward Kasner
...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him. — John G. Kemeny
The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from… — Morris Kline
For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that by… — Seymour Papert
Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature. — John Allen Paulos
I love mathematics...principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given him his greatest… — Rozsa Peter
Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe. — John Polkinghorne
Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an… — Rudy Rucker
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg
In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we can find answers… — W. W. Sawyer
Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man. — Wallace B. Smith
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else.… — Lynn Steen
Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate...the… — Lynn Steen
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of patterns… — Lynn Steen
As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other… — William Thurston
Make your mistakes work for you by learning from them. — Donald Trump
Figures don't lie, but liars figure. — Mark Twain
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything… — John von Neumann
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the… — Hermann Weyl
Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world. — Alfred North Whitehead

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