Isaac Asimov Quotes about Math

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

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

Isaac Asimov

Teacher, Math, Technology

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

Isaac Asimov

Math, Numbers, Income

Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.25, Spectra

One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge.

Isaac Asimov

Real, Math, Understanding

Isaac Asimov Quotes about Math

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