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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
  • In terms of it being a first screenplay, literally, my hat is off to him [Wally Pfister]. I didn't see any virgin blather in screen direction, or anything like that. It was just a wonderfully executed piece, and a complicated one. The mathematics involved in putting this film together, between Jack and Wally, and the great support of Alcon, it was not a easy little operetta.

  • Mathematics is an art of human understanding.

  • 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
  • Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.

    Brain   Connections   May  
    "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 15: "Random Reflections on Mathematics and Science", p. 277, 1991.
  • That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.

    Math   Stuff   Sometimes  
  • There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE.

  • God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

    "The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics As The Language Of Nature". Book by Heinz Pagels, p. 295, 1982.
  • Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

    Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota, Jacob T. Schwartz (2009). “Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy”, p.155, Springer Science & Business Media
  • Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

  • There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.

  • 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  
  • 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
  • The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

    Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.75, W. W. Norton & Company
  • I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.

  • It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.

    Beauty   Art   Orbit  
  • It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

    Man's Place in Nature II (p. 126)
  • I liked science. I wasn't mathematically oriented, so I became an organic chemist.

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

  • Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

  • In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'

  • The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take account of the psychic processes in the boy in order to grip his interest, and he will succeed only if he presents things in a form intuitively comprehensible. A more abstract presentation is only possible in the upper classes.

    Teacher   School   Boys  
  • When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.

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

    Math   Men   Wife  
  • In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

    Race   Long   Hopeless  
    Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).”, p.8
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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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