Math Quotes - Page 14

• If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.

  Snoop Dogg

  Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

  Ernest Renan

  Life, Education, Teaching

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• The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

  Bertrand Russell

  Anger, Religion, Savages

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.67, Routledge

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• Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

  Stendhal

  Hypocrisy, Vagueness, Mathematics

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• 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

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  Calvin Trillin (1988). “If you can't say something nice”, Penguin Group USA

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• Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Bad Ass, People, Said

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• Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Queens, Believe

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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• The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.248, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Imagination Creativity, Skills

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Two wrongs don't make a right.

  Roald Dahl

  Revenge, Humorous, Haste Makes Waste

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

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• The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea.

  George Polya

  Good Luck, Science, Discovery

  George Pólya (1948). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

  George Polya

  Teaching, Science, Worst Enemy

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• The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus, and everything in between, falls under this rubric. Happy is the person who comes to understand something and then gets to explain it.

  Marshall A. Cohen

  Teacher, Fall, Teaching

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• Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

  Albrecht Durer

  Teaching, Foundation, Painting

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• Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

  Nicholas Eberstadt

  Men, Numbers, May

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• Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.

  Michael C. Reed

  Sex, Observation, Urges

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• Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

  Isaac Barrow

  Foundation, Affair, Fountain

  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

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

  George Polya

  Knowledge, Obvious Things, Way

  George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”

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• In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

  Hermann Hankel

  Add, Generations, Stories

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• Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.

  Tobias Dantzig

  Judging, Decision, Appeals

  Tobias Dantzig (2005). “Number: The Language of Science”, Dutton Juvenile

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• It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.

  John Wesley Young

  Thinking, Students, Study

  John Wesley Young, William Wells Denton, Ulysses Grant Mitchell (1930). “Lectures on fundamental concepts of algebra and geometry”

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• How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.

  W. H. Auden

  Happiness, Science, Winning

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• What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns.

  Lynn Steen

  Knowledge, Patterns, Logic

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Numbers, Pigeons, Arithmetic

  Carl Sandburg, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1995). “Carl Sandburg”, p.17, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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