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Mathematics Quotes by Paul Halmos
- To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.
- What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch with God when you're thinking…
- [Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing-one great,…
- Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to…
- ...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept of…
- The computer is important, but not to mathematics.
- It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.
- The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.
- Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.
- The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ...
- The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound insights; the insights…
- The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.
- Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the…
- It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists.
- Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.
- The heart of mathematics is its problems.
- Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he said, students on…
- If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have,…
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