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Math Quotes by Paul Lockhart
- Mathematics is the music of reason.
- To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion − not…
- No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're…
- In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something practical like compound interest…
- So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people; nor…
- [Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.
- The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was "out there" all along I…
- The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the same.
- 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, students…
- [Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will tell me the…
More Math Quotes
- To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. — Marcus Aurelius
- How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! — Jane Austen
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. — Charles Baudelaire
- Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. — Jean Baudrillard
- The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. — Scott Adams
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. — Ambrose Bierce
- Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. — Ambrose Bierce
- Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math! — Lewis Black
- If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle. — Rita Mae Brown
- Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. — Jean de la Bruyere