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Mathematics Quotes by Howard Whitley Eves
- It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itself by…
- A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.
- Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly attempting…
- A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should…
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- 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