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  • I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

    John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin
  • Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

    Education   Math   Men  
  • I was x years old in the year x2.

    Education   Math   Years  
  • The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver.

    Teaching   Math   Ideas  
  • 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: Pursuing Dreams and Embracing Chaos". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • 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.
  • But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

  • To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.

  • The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

    A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)
  • Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

    Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.357, Bantam
  • Imagination is more important than knowledge.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press
  • Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

    Education   Wise   Clever  
    Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
  • Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

    Beauty   Math   Apology  
    A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)
  • It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.

    John Wesley Young, William Wells Denton, Ulysses Grant Mitchell (1930). “Lectures on fundamental concepts of algebra and geometry”
  • Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

    RENE DESCARTES (1952). “RULES FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE MIND DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MEDITATIONS AND REPLIES THE GEOMETRY”
  • Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to reevaluation of counting as a method of getting from one to ten. Students are taught advanced concepts of Boolean algebra, and formerly unsolvable equations are dealt with by threats of reprisals.

    Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated
  • A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

    Education   Math   Unique  
    G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.84, Cambridge University Press
  • Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

    Math   Simple   Games  
  • Numbers constitute the only universal language.

    1933 Miss Lonely hearts.
  • "The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."

  • Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

    "The Study of Mathematics" (1902)
  • What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns.

  • I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn.

  • 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.
  • Where there is matter, there is geometry.

    Math   Science   Matter  
  • The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

    Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.318, Modern Library
  • I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.

    Sorry   Mistake   Math  
    Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.39, Ballantine Books
  • Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

  • The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.

    Math   Men   Lord  
  • When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

    Math   Science   Numbers  
    Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).
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