Math Quotes - Page 21

• The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Truth, Knowledge, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.20, Hackett Publishing

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• Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

  Blaise Pascal

  Reading, Writing, Vanity

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• The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Writing, Science, Men

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.... The two propositions: "The earth turns round" and "it is more convenient to suppose the earth turns round" have the same meaning; there is nothing more in the one than in the other.

  Henri Poincare

  Moving, Two, Space

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• . . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

  Edward Kasner

  Independent, Mind, Overcoming

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• Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world

  Eric Thomas

  Real, Negative, World

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• Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Religion, Trouble, Obscure

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• College was an experience I'll always cherish. Now I fund a scholarship at my alma mater in my late father's name-he'd laugh to know that it's a science scholarship, when I can barely do math! I also fund a nursing scholarship at the Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, South Dakota, in the name of my mother, who was a nurse.

  Diana Palmer

  Mother, Father, Nursing

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• The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Silly, Doubt, Vices

  Eric Temple Bell (1937). “Men of Mathematics”

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• The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Art, Doubt, Pragmatists

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• My success rate is 100 percent. Do the math.

  Charlie Sheen

  Rate, Percent

  "Charlie Sheen Sets His Sights on Sox". Boston Dirt Dogs interview, bostondirtdogs.boston.com. March 8, 2011.

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• On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Air, Venus

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven.

  Thomas Browne

  Order, Cities, Heaven

  'The Garden of Cyrus' (1658) ch. 5

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• Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math, and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems.

  Michelle Obama

  Art, Reading, Skills

  Michelle Obama's Remarks At The American Ballet Opening Spring Gala, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 18, 2009.

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• It has been proven time and time again in countless studies that students who actively participate in arts education are twice as likely to read for pleasure, have strengthened problem-solving and critical thinking skills, are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, four times more likely to participate in a math and science fair.

  Quincy Jones

  Art, Thinking, Skills

  "Arts Education in America" by Quincy Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2009.

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• Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Two, Wish, Add

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• I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity.

  Jennifer Garner

  Girl, Jobs, Thinking

  "The Amazing Things Jennifer Garner Wants Her Daughters to Learn" by Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. November 20, 2014.

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• I'm an expert in higher level math. You + God = Enough

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Business, Experts

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Apr 19, 2014

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• A good calculator does not need artificial aids.

  Laozi

  Doe, Needs, Aids

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• The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I do not myself think the danger is serious; either a reasonable amount of concentration leads to new ideas or methods of obvious interest, or else one just leaves the problem alone. "Perfect numbers" certainly never did any good, but then they never did any particular harm.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Thinking, Numbers, Ideas

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Nature, Science, Discovery

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• There is no nature at an instant.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Instant, Mathematics

  Alfred North Whitehead (2013). “The Concept of Nature”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Music, Scent, Aroma

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• Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are looking for a light in the darkness of their lives, a Good Samaritan who will stop and bandage a bruised heart or ego.

  Jim Trelease

  Children, Reading, Heart

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• No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.

  Tommy Lee

  Real, People, Looks

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