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• Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

  Daniel Tammet

  Numbers, Culture, Literature

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• When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.

  Daniel Tammet

  Thinking, Two, Numbers

  "A genius explains" by Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2005.

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• All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dream, Technology, Agency

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• He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love, Reality, Sea

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• You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

  Shaun White

  Games, Work Out, Competition

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• Make your mistakes work for you by learning from them.

  Donald Trump

  Mistake, Teaching

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• Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

  Mark Twain

  Liars, Lying, Teaching

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• The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything else the inception of modern mathematics; and the system of mathematical analysis, which is its logical development, still constitutes the greatest technical advance in exact thinking.

  John von Neumann

  Teaching, Thinking, Achievement

  John Von Neumann, F. Bródy, Tibor Vámos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.620, World Scientific

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• Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the universal organ for world understanding through theoretical construction. Mathematics must therefore remain an essential element of the knowledge and abilities which we have to teach, of the culture we have to transmit, to the next generation.

  Hermann Weyl

  Teaching, Creative, Understanding

  Hermann Weyl (1968). “Gesammelte Abhandlungen”

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• If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

  Paul Dirac

  If There Is A God, Ifs, Mathematics

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• There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

  Gregory Benford

  Real, Iron, Greek

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• I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Emotional, I Can

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• Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

  Leopold Kronecker

  Numbers, Giving, Cooking

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• Mathematicians are born, not made.

  Henri Poincare

  Born, Made, Mathematics

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• Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well prepared by labour, both conscious and subconscious.

  Henri Poincare

  Discovery, Preparation, Soil

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• A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

  Henri Poincare

  Nature, Work, Artist

  "Henri Poincaré, Critic of Crisis: Reflections on His Universe of Discourse". Book by Tobias Dantzig, p. 8, 1954.

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• The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

  Henri Poincare

  Creativity, Mind, Use

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• Now I will have less distraction.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Distraction, Mathematics

  Quoted in Howard Eves, Mathematical Circles (1969)

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• After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Arise, Should

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• One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater depths of mystery--and more totally useless--than the perfect numbers.

  Martin Gardner

  Education, Numbers, Perfect

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• I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math. I was more interested in drawing in the margins than actually doing the work.

  Nancy Spero

  Book, School, Artist

  "Art as a Continuum". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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• One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Girl, Reading, Writing

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• And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Doubt, Needs, Certainty

  Joseph Glanvill (1885). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion”

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• I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.

  Major Owens

  Educational, School, Thinking

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• You live your life between your ears.

  Bebe Moore Campbell

  Live Your Life, Ears

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