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• Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

  Paul Halmos

  Education, Knowledge, May

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  A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Thinking, Fractions

  graf Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings”

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• A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

  Mae West

  Funny, Money, Men

  1940 Line spoken in My Little Chickadee.

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• The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.

  Paul Halmos

  Education, Knowledge, Texas

  P.R. Halmos, Paul Richard Halmos (1982). “A Hilbert Space Problem Book”, p.7, Springer Science & Business Media

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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.

  G. H. Hardy

  Names, People, Stupidity

  G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

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• Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

  Isaac Asimov

  Teacher, Technology, Computer

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• Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fake People, Talking, May

  "Mathematics and Metaphysicians" (1901)

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• God ever arithmetizes.

  Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

  Mathematics, Mathematical

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• 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.

  Malcolm X

  Sorry, Mistake, Science

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.39, Ballantine Books

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• The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

  Scott Adams

  Science, Mysterious Universe, Numbers

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.451, Penguin

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• Mathematics should be fun.

  Peter Hilton

  Education, Fun, Should

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• Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!

  Lewis Black

  Republican, Democrat

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• A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms."

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Needs, Habit, Natural

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• There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your hands. There's an intelligence with language that would lead someone into writing. So it's not necessarily that you're six years old and you know you're going to be a lawyer Or you're going into tech startups or computers. It's something more elemental than that. It's that this is a skill, a way of thinking that comes naturally to me that I was drawn to and it was very clear in childhood.

  Robert Greene

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Moments, Century, Remove

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• Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.

  John A. Van de Walle

  Education, Knowledge, Logic

  John A. Van de Walle (1994). “Elementary School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally”, Longman Publishing Group

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• One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed. This gives students the idea that there is a book somewhere with all the right answers to all of the interesting questions, and that teachers know those answers. And if one could get hold of the book, one would have everything settled. That's so unlike the true nature of mathematics.

  Leon Henkin

  Teacher, Book, Ideas

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• What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

  Sydney Smith

  Life, Culture, Horror

  Lady Saba Holland Holland, Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.345

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• The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

  David Hilbert

  Men, Spirit, Infinite

  "Über das Unendliche" ["On the Infinite"] (1925) address to der Westfälischen Mathematischen Gesellschaft in honour to the memory of Karl Weierstrass, as quoted in "Number The Language of Science" by Tobias Dantzig, 1930.

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• God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, God, Doe

  "Quest: An Autobiography". Book by Leopold Infeld (p. 279), 1980.

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• We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Mean, Technology

  "Michelle Obama Lends a Hand For Women In Science" by Helene McLaughlin, www.wired.com. September 28, 2011.

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• The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Zero, Needs, Use

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.43, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Jobs, Writing, Prove

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• Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

  Ronald Graham

  Patterns, Sometimes

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• Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.

  Virgil

  Numbers, Delight, Numbers And Math

  Virgil (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virgil (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics

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