Math Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

  Karl Pearson

  May, Results, Description

  Karl Pearson (1900). “The grammar of science”, p.505, Рипол Классик

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• The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.

  Rene Thom

  Ideas, World, Consciousness

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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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• Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it may be, students and their teachers should at all times be engaged in the process - having ideas, not having ideas, discovering patterns, making conjectures, constructing examples and counterexamples, devising arguments, and critiquing each other's work.

  Paul Lockhart

  Teacher, Ideas, Focus

  "A Mathematician's Lament". Book by Paul Lockhart, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

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• ... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.

  Terence Tao

  Often Is, Trying, Technique

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• ... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards.

  John C. Baez

  Topology, Algebra, Backwards

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• It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects.

  John C. Baez

  Nice, Nasty, Categories

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• All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.

  G. H. Hardy

  Hunting, Use, Half

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• The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very old and powerful and haunted math for 2000+ years - is precisely what Cantor's own work overturned. Saying that infinity drove Cantor mad is sort of like mourning St. George's loss to the dragon: it's not only wrong but insulting.

  David Foster Wallace

  Powerful, Real, Loss

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• A great deal more is known than has been proved.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Deals, Has Beens, Known

  "The Music of the Primes : Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery of Mathematics". Book by Marcus du Sautoy, 2003.

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• The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Understanding, Use

  "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". Book by Richard P. Feynman, p. 70, 1985.

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• The polynomial xn−1 is a force of nature.

  Roman Abramovich

  Force, Forces Of Nature

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• It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there.

  Kato

  Home, Numbers, Refrigerators

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• If we drop money, we are usually very sad if the money is big. But for example, if we drop 310 dollars, we can relax, because this is very small in the 3-adics.

  Kato

  Relax, Example, Dollars

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