Math Quotes - Page 27

• Fourier is a mathematical poem.

  Lord Kelvin

  Poetry, Fourier, Mathematics

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• War can protect; it cannot create.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  War, Protect, Mathematics

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.50, Open Road Media

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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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• At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Understanding, Firsts

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• If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

  Paul Dirac

  If There Is A God, Ifs, Mathematics

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• There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

  Gregory Benford

  Real, Iron, Greek

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• I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Emotional, I Can

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• Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

  Leopold Kronecker

  Numbers, Giving, Cooking

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• Mathematicians are born, not made.

  Henri Poincare

  Born, Made, Mathematics

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• Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well prepared by labour, both conscious and subconscious.

  Henri Poincare

  Discovery, Preparation, Soil

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• A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

  Henri Poincare

  Nature, Work, Artist

  "Henri Poincaré, Critic of Crisis: Reflections on His Universe of Discourse". Book by Tobias Dantzig, p. 8, 1954.

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• The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

  Henri Poincare

  Creativity, Mind, Use

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• Now I will have less distraction.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Distraction, Mathematics

  Quoted in Howard Eves, Mathematical Circles (1969)

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• After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Arise, Should

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• One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater depths of mystery--and more totally useless--than the perfect numbers.

  Martin Gardner

  Education, Numbers, Perfect

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• I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math. I was more interested in drawing in the margins than actually doing the work.

  Nancy Spero

  Book, School, Artist

  "Art as a Continuum". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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• One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Girl, Reading, Writing

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• And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Doubt, Needs, Certainty

  Joseph Glanvill (1885). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion”

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• I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.

  Major Owens

  Educational, School, Thinking

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• You live your life between your ears.

  Bebe Moore Campbell

  Live Your Life, Ears

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• All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

  Peter Lynch

  Needs, Investing, Grades

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Girl, Running, Baby

  William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.2, Oxford University Press

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• Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

  Paul Lockhart

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Patterns

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• It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

  Paul Lockhart

  Journey, Stories, Matter

  "A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form". Book by Paul Lockhart, 2009.

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• Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.

  Paul Lockhart

  Kind, Problem, Solve

  "A Mathematician's Lament". genius.com. January 1, 2002.

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