Math Quotes - Page 30

• 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 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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• The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are known only to him who has experienced them himself.

  Albert Einstein

  Dark, Years, Break Through

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

  John C. Baez

  Topology, Algebra, Backwards

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• Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

  Henri Poincare

  Art, Figures, Geometry

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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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• Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global.

  Rene Thom

  Discipline, Topology, Passages

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• There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Errors, Facts, Common

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.16, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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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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• Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Ideas, May

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• Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers.

  Kato

  Song, Land, Numbers

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• Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.

  Raymond Smullyan

  Ideas, No Idea, I Can

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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

  Randall Munroe

  Thinking, May, Stones

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• It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Punishment, Coarse, Prisoner

  "A Journey to Sakhalin". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1895.

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• There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

  Henri Poincare

  Knowledge, Ontology, Logic

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• Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.

  Ralph P. Boas, Jr.

  Knowledge, People, Logic

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