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Martin Gardner has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results…
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Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,…
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If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to…
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If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where,…
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All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.
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Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And…
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Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is…
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The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.
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But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
— Tom Lehrer
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Indeed, there is something to be said for the old math when taught by a poorly trained teacher. He can, at least,…
— Martin Gardner
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President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of…
— Jay Leno
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I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths…
— George Polya
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By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact,…
— Danica McKellar
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When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and…
— Clarence Thomas
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