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  • 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 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
  • Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

    Math   Ideas   Vivid  
    Ivars Peterson (1998). “The Mathematical Tourist: New and Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics”, p.6, Macmillan
  • I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.

    Tattoo   Math   Numbers  
  • 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
  • Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

    Math   World   Fantasy  
    "Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology".
  • If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?

    Math   Successful   Keys  
  • Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

    Music   Math   Science  
  • 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
  • I just love math and most people don't.

    Math   People   Math Love  
  • 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.
  • With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

  • My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. I think figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject, but I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.

    "Gridiron Sensation". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1991.
  • It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.

    Jobs   Math   Arithmetic  
  • My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!

    Kids   Math   Thanks  
    "Give parents some choice! Our kids' education should not be controlled by a monopoly" by John Stossel, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2014.
  • 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.
  • Many young women are less whole and androgynous than they were at age ten. They are more appearance-conscious and sex-conscious. They are quieter, more fearful of holding strong opinions, more careful what they say and less honest. They are more likely to second-guess themselves and to be self-critical. They are bigger worriers and more effective people pleasers. They are less likely to play sports, love math and science and plan on being president. They hide their intelligence. Many must fight for years to regain all the territory they lost.

    Love   Sports   Strong  
    Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.238, Penguin
  • A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

    Witty   Humorous   Coffee  
  • The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

    Learning   Math   Way  
  • Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

    Math   Science   Culture  
  • I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity.

    Girl   Jobs   Math  
    "The Amazing Things Jennifer Garner Wants Her Daughters to Learn" by Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. November 20, 2014.
  • Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.

    Math   Race   Apes  
  • The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.

    Moving   Math   Cowboy  
  • Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

    Math   Numbers   Pigeons  
    Carl Sandburg, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1995). “Carl Sandburg”, p.17, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

  • I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

    Math   Science   Return  
    Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The private years, 1884-1914”, Allen Lane
  • To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

    Math   Ideas   World  
  • Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

    Love   Sacrifice   Math  
    G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.94, Cambridge University Press
  • The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

    Anger   Math   Religion  
    Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.67, Routledge
  • If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

    Science   Math   Men  
    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
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