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  • Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

    Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”
  • The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

    Math   Spirit   Madness  
    Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
  • The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

    "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 172), 1973.
  • If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

    Believe   Math   Simple  
    John von Neumann's remarks as keynote speaker at the first national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery (1947) as quoted in "Archaeology of computers: Reminiscences, 1945-1947" by Franz L. Alt, Communications of the ACM, Volume 15, Issue 7, special issue: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery (p. 694), July 1972.
  • The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings, and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to senses tried by the present day kaleidoscope of events.

    Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.470, Oxford University Press
  • But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

  • Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

    George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”
  • The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

    Math   Epic   Age  
    Edward Gibbon (1862). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.401
  • If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

    Funny   Witty   Revenge  
    Laurence J. Peter (1979). “Peter's people”, W. Morrow
  • If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

    Math   Men   Littles  
    Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1821). “A critique of Bacon's "Novum Organum," by Basil Montagu, extracted from the Retrospective Review, 1821. Few MS. notes”, p.285
  • Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

    Math   Science   Errors  
    "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.
  • Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

    Math   Hands   Numbers  
    Carl Sandburg, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1995). “Carl Sandburg”, p.17, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

    Math   Men   Numbers  
  • Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

    Math   Simple   Games  
  • I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

    Calvin Trillin (1988). “If you can't say something nice”, Penguin Group USA
  • As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

    Prayer   School   Math  
  • Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

    Teaching   Math   Science  
    "Obituary for Emmy Noether". Letter to the Editor of The New York Times, www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. May 5, 1935.
  • As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

    Address to Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 27 Jan. 1921
  • Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

    Isaac Barrow (1734). “The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge”, p.28
  • Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

    Math   Noses   Wells  
  • A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

    Quoted in John D Barrow Pie in the Sky, Counting, Thinking and Being (1992).
  • You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

  • Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

    Plato   Math   Amusing  
  • When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.

  • It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.

    Jobs   Math   Arithmetic  
  • The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

    Math   Science   Men  
    John G. Kemeny (1964). “Random Essays on Mathematics, Education, and Computers”
  • Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

  • If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

    "The Mountains of Pi" by Richard Preston, www.newyorker.com. March 02, 1992.
  • Know what you're talking about.

    George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.99, Simon and Schuster
  • Two wrongs don't make a right.

    Revenge   Humorous   Math  
    Roald Dahl (2016). “The GFG: The Guid Freendly Giant: The BFG in Scots”, p.145, Black & White Publishing
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