Math Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Numbers, Thrones, Ifs

  Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”

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• Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Teaching, School, Destruction

  Thomas Carlyle (1886). “Early Letters”, p.281, Georg Olms Verlag

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• When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.

  Rene Descartes

  Writing, Issues, Transcendental

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• Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about was how to reach them!

  Rene Dubos

  Long Ago, Worry, Certain

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• What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?

  Albert Einstein

  Battle, Frogs, Mice

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• To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the anatomical members of my Academy.

  Frederick The Great

  Eye, Half, Care

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• A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.

  Gottlob Frege

  Giving, Foundation, Letters

  Note in the appendix of "Grundlagen der Arithmetik" (Vol. 2), after Frege had received a letter of Bertrand Russell in which Russell had explained his discovery of, what is now known as, Russell's paradox, 1903.

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• I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

  Blaise Pascal

  Space, Silence, Alarms

  "The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal". Book by Blaise Pascal, published by Kegan Paul. Chapter "The Misery of Man Without God", 1885.

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• ... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not permit a choice among every thing that is exact, one would hardly think of many questions, and certain notions ... would escape us completely.

  Henri Lebesgue

  Thinking, Choices, Doe

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• If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.

  Rene Thom

  Rigour, Latter, Ifs

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• What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mind, Needs, Use

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