Courses Quote by William Raspberry

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

— Richard P. Feynman

People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior…

— Daniel Kahneman

I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.

— Freeman Dyson

Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

— Danica McKellar

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that…

— Richard Baxter

The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so…

— Marcus du Sautoy

How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually…

— Henri Poincare

Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue…

— Anya Kamenetz

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

— Lord Kelvin

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…

— James Key

I was a mathematician by nature, and still am - I just knew I didn't want to be a mathematician. So I decided not…

— Stephen Sondheim

Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense.

— Lord Kelvin