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  • Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

    Math   Names   People  
    G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.86, Cambridge University Press
  • Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

    Math   Fifth Grade   Made  
  • Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.

    Math   Numbers   Delight  
    Virgil (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virgil (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics
  • There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being.

    James Joseph Sylvester (1869). “Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association, Exeter, August 19th, 1869”, p.6
  • That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.

    Math   Stuff   Sometimes  
  • A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either one while thinking about the other.

    Sex   Math   Thinking  
  • Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

    Reading   Writing   Math  
  • If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in Seattle called the Institute for Disease Modelling that is a mix of computer science and math-type people, and the progress we're making in polio or plans for malaria or really driven by their deep insights.

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

    Math   Topology   Algebra  
  • Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

  • Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

    Life   Mean   Math  
    Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.626, Psychology Press
  • 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
  • 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?

    Mean   Math   Talking  
  • In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap.

    Education   Money   Work  
    Phyllis Schlafly (2015). “Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I”, p.60, Creators Publishing
  • Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

    Love   Math   Science  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.79, Harvard University Press
  • It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

    Man's Place in Nature II (p. 126)
  • The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.

  • Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

  • My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about mathmatics. I must have gotten that from my father, he was a master of math and science, and I always liked that sort of thing, too. Of course my mother and father did not agree with me on becoming more educated in mathmatics, but I was persistent and eventualy they gave in and I was taught by a wonderful teacher.

    Mother   Teacher   Father  
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  • No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

  • You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

    Math   Different   May  
    "Political Power Player Rove Leaves the Game". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris and Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. August 13, 2007.
  • Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

    Math   Logic   Reasoning  
    Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”
  • This common and unfortunate fact of the lack of adequate presentation of basic ideas and motivations of almost any mathematical theory is probably due to the binary nature of mathematical perception. Either you have no inkling of an idea, or, once you have understood it, the very idea appears so embarrassingly obvious that you feel reluctant to say it aloud.

    Motivation   Math   Ideas  
  • Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.

    Math   Men   Wife  
  • I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

    Math   Events   Patterns  
    Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.157, Macmillan
  • 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.

    "A Journey to Sakhalin". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1895.
  • What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

    Life   Math   Culture  
    Lady Saba Holland Holland, Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.345
  • Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it may be, students and their teachers should at all times be engaged in the process - having ideas, not having ideas, discovering patterns, making conjectures, constructing examples and counterexamples, devising arguments, and critiquing each other's work.

    Teacher   Math   Ideas  
    "A Mathematician's Lament". Book by Paul Lockhart, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.
  • I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.

    Math   Men   Fire  
    George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions
  • There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned.

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