Math Quotes - Page 22

• The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

  Ken Robinson

  Art, Humanity, Students

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.159, Penguin

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• There's math, and everything else is debatable!

  Chris Rock

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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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• Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

  Simone Weil

  Money, Firsts, Algebra

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.209, U of Nebraska Press

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• Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

  Bill Cosby

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Music, Scent, Aroma

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• This is not class warfare. It’s math.

  Barack Obama

  Class, Warfare, Class Warfare

  Barack Obama's Speech on Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 19, 2011.

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• You know there's always that kid in your class — and every class has one — the kid who draws all the time and is really good? That was not me. I was a lousy draftsman. But as soon as I figured out that I could make things come alive, like using the corners of my math book to make flipbooks, I was hooked.

  Pete Docter

  Book, Kids, Class

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• I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

  Nathan Kress

  My Favorite, Grades, Algebra

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• Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

  Jason Earles

  Favorite Subject, My Favorite, Theater

  Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. August 17, 2009.

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• . . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

  Henri Poincare

  Mind, World, Natural

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• Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And while laudable efforts are being made to raise academic standards, this new and troubling deficiency is not being addressed in the standard school curriculum. As one Brooklyn teacher put it, the present emphasis in schools suggests that "we care more about how well schoolchildren can read and write than whether they'll be alive next week."

  Daniel Goleman

  Education, Teacher, Reading

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• C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

  Auguste Comte

  Science

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• In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

  Bill Gates

  Book, Home, Class

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• There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Views, Two

  Alfred North Whitehead (1929). “The Aims of Education & Other Essays”

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• Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and surprises. Unfortunately there is never a lack of mathematicians for the job of transforming delectable ingredients into a dish that tastes like a damp blanket.

  James R Newman

  Jobs, Adventure, Games

  James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.2414, Рипол Классик

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• Fourier is a mathematical poem.

  Lord Kelvin

  Poetry, Fourier, Mathematics

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• If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.

  Rene Descartes

  War, Battle, Sides

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• To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Mad, Understanding

  Thomas Hobbes (1845). ““The” English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.445

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• But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

  Antonin Artaud

  Understanding, Scientist, Quantum

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.497, Univ of California Press

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• For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general sense that the world can be expressed in closely-reasoned arguments, in interlocking axioms and theorems.

  Michael Frayn

  World, Pages, Argument

  Michael Frayn (2009). “Constructions: Making Sense of Things”, Faber & Faber

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• Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Fall, Errors, Mind

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