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- It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.
- To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.
- Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained…
- There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and…
- In other words these children, by avoiding the early drill on combinations, tables, and that sort of thing, had been able, in one year, to…
- How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is no appeal. We…
- Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let them meet or…
- The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of math being grinding…
- To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is…
- Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part of our job…
- Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful…
- Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental. It is worthy of much exploration and…
- Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes.
- Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the…
- To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of…
- Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.
- Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.
- Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.
- When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last 50…
- Indeed art is fundamental : to science, mathematics and to language. Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have not fully understood its importance, relegating it…
- Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.
- Life is like Mathematics.. So many problems.. But every problem has solution in it...
- Government and Politics, my fellows, are lies. Purely and utterly. It is through numbers, however, that we as Man can even come remotely close to…
- Advertising research is one-half frustration, one-half exclamation point, and one-half question-mark. If this adds up to more than 100 percent, it proves that mathematics and…
- The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.
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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