Math Quotes - Page 2

• Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

  Bertrand Russell

  Western Philosophy, Mathematics, Mathematical Beauty

  "The Study of Mathematics" (1902)

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• Numbers constitute the only universal language.

  Nathanael West

  Communication, Numbers, Language

  1933 Miss Lonely hearts.

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• Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

  Simeon Denis Poisson

  Life, Teaching, Science

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• Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• I feel like I'm playing some giant video game, or trying to solve a really complicated math equation. 'One girl is trying to avoid forty raiding parties of between fifteen to twenty people each, spread out across a radius of seven miles. If she has to make it 2.7 miles through the center, what is the probablitiy she will wake up tomorrow morning in a jail cell? Please feel free to round pi to 3.14'.

  Lauren Oliver

  Girl, Morning, Party

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Education, Squares, Circles

  "A Budget of Paradoxes".

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• Where there is matter, there is geometry.

  Johannes Kepler

  Science, Matter, Geometry

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• Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

  Carl Benjamin Boyer

  Science, Culture, Algorithms

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• The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Magnificence, Study, Ends

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.164

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• One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.

  Heinrich Hertz

  Independent, Feelings, Intelligence

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• Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

  Charles Darwin

  Seems, Mathematics, Mathematical

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• Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.

  Morris Kline

  Knowledge, Body, Logic

  Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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• Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

  Marvin Minsky

  Real, Knowledge, Mind

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• We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work.

  Jaime Escalante

  Education, Hard Work, Knowledge

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• "Ganas is all you need."

  Jaime Escalante

  Knowledge, Needs, Logic

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• Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

  Plato

  Numbers, Degrees, Highest

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• Numerical precision is the very soul of science.

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

  Education, Soul, Precision

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (2014). “On Growth and Form”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.

  Robertson Davies

  Fool, Enough, Illiterate

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn.

  Archimedes

  Education, Littles, Spheres

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• All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.

  Thomas Banchoff

  Education, Prejudice, Dimensions

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• When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

  Paul Halmos

  Answers, Students, Should

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• 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 is going to get them excited? People enjoy fantasy, and that is just what mathematics can provide - a relief from daily life, an anodyne to the practical workaday world.

  Paul Lockhart

  Kids, Thinking, Want Something

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• Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy - it comes from the Latin word calculus, meaning a pebble used for counting. To enjoy working with numbers you don't have to be Einstein (German for "one stone"), but it might help to have rocks in your head.

  Steven Strogatz

  Latin, Rocks, Numbers

  Steven Strogatz (2012). “The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Ordinary, Language, Algebra

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• ...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system ... itself.

  Kurt Gödel

  Mean, Consistency, Inference

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