Math Quotes - Page 40

• What's all this whining about the environment? They're always talking about 'stop the clearcuts.' I mean do the math people. If we were out of trees then we wouldn't have any clearcuts to be complaining about now would we?

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Talking, People

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• Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.... The two propositions: "The earth turns round" and "it is more convenient to suppose the earth turns round" have the same meaning; there is nothing more in the one than in the other.

  Henri Poincare

  Moving, Two, Space

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• . . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

  Edward Kasner

  Independent, Mind, Overcoming

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• So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Information, Printing, Century

  "The Aims of Education". Book by Alfred North Whitehead, 1929.

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• Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world

  Eric Thomas

  Real, Negative, World

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• Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Religion, Trouble, Obscure

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.

  Gregory Maguire

  Hard Times, Two, Three

  Gregory Maguire (2010). “What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy”, p.62, Candlewick Press

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• College was an experience I'll always cherish. Now I fund a scholarship at my alma mater in my late father's name-he'd laugh to know that it's a science scholarship, when I can barely do math! I also fund a nursing scholarship at the Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, South Dakota, in the name of my mother, who was a nurse.

  Diana Palmer

  Mother, Father, Nursing

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• Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.

  William Thurston

  Thinking, People, Curiosity

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• I like Math because there's only one right answer.

  Brendan Fehr

  Answers, Right Answers

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• When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein, and the Big Bang. I read a lot about black holes. And partly because I'm so lazy I thought you could do all this just by looking at the sky and thinking up universes. It didn't seem like hard work when I was a kid, so I enrolled in this class.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  School, Kids, Hard Work

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• In art class at school we learned how to draw tanks and soldiers opening fire at [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini and his beard. They didn't teach us the names of the flowers that grew around us in the city - wild flowers of all kinds and all colors. The math teacher used to whip the kids with his trouser belt. My father was constantly violent toward my mother for the most trivial reasons.

  Hassan Blasim

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's a lot of new songs that no-one has heard yet, and that there's a lot of old songs that some very, very super hardcore fans have heard for sure - there are people that have been coming and seeing me play in bars in like 2002, and there are songs that those people heard.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Play, People

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• I have been involved with science and math education my whole life. My hope is to continue to promote the love of these beautiful disciplines to the next generation.

  Tohoru Masamune

  Beautiful, Discipline, Generations

  "Tohoru Masamune: Pursuing Dreams and Embracing Chaos". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I got to college, I planned to be a math major, and, in addition to signing up for some math courses, I decided to take some philosophy. Quite by chance, I took a philosophy of science course in which the entire semester was devoted to reading Locke's Essay. I was hooked. For the next few semesters, I took nothing but philosophy and math courses, and it wasn't long before I realised that it was the philosophy that really moved me.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophy, Reading, College

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

  David Plouffe

  Numbers, Calculus

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.

  Jamie Dimon

  Normal, Humans, Human Beings

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• You know, students who major in elementary education - they're going to be grade school teachers - they have the highest rates of math anxiety of any college major. And they bring that into the classroom. So you find students being introduced to math concepts by teachers who may have not only a lack of training but also a lack of enthusiasm about math.

  Anya Kamenetz

  Teacher, School, College

  "Some Educators Question If Advanced Math Should Be Required". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. March 3, 2016.

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• There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters advanced math concepts - algebra, geometry, statistics and probability.

  Anya Kamenetz

  Effort, Statistics, Common

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• The idea here, of course, is, you know, mathematics is the language of science, it's the way that we understand the natural world. And there's definitely been a push to sort of study advanced math and kind of reawaken the love of advanced math.

  Anya Kamenetz

  Ideas, Way, World

  "Some Educators Question If Advanced Math Should Be Required". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. March 3, 2016.

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• Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

  Mike Norton

  Dream, Art, Love Is

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• It was gonna be a race [2016] that set a foundation for the Left in the future. But given the math, I didn't think he was gonna make it. And so I started to shift to Hillary [Clinton] and to discussions of the platform and discussions of what to do.

  Tom Hayden

  Thinking, Race, Foundation

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There was a period there where I was like, "No, no, no, this is crazy. I don't want to take any more drawing classes and talk about what looks best. I want to study math and psychology and physics and all these nerdy things with computers." That was fun and great, but that didn't work out. At the end of high school, I was like, "Uhh, what's easier? Drawing is easier, I'll do that".

  James Pearse Connelly

  Fun, Crazy, School

  "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

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• I was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken when my math teacher said, "You're failing in school, you're messing up, why don't you just try this?" I said, "Alright, let me try it," and I started going to acting classes and I loved it. I thought, "I may not make it but I love doing it."

  John Leguizamo

  Teacher, School, Kentucky

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• There's a fundamental disconnection in society in the way we live, this way we live that we take so for granted, and we've become very separate from one another and we don't really take lot of time to realize that. And the math is overwhelming to the point of despair, but the answers could be so simple.

  Amanda Palmer

  Simple, Despair, Fundamentals

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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