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Mathematics 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…
- Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.
- Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We…
- Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems, to make their…
- Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure
- There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or…
- The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come up, from scratch,…
- 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…
- 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…
- If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do…
- Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.
- There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.
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