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Mathematics Quotes by George Polya
- The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is…
- Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and…
- If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression…
- In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must…
- Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.
- Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.
- Mathematics is not a spectator sport!
- I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.
- It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.
- Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean way appears as…
- Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate…
- The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who wishes to serve…
- Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had gone off to…
- Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for…
More Mathematics Quotes
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon
- In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. — Stefan Banach
- I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. — John Adams
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. — Ambrose Bierce
- When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading… — W. E. B. Du Bois
- No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole