Math Quotes - Page 12

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

Number rules the universe.

Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it.

What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.

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

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.

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.

The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that spreads understanding and breathes life into ideas both old and new.

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of a kind that physicists use and trying to fit them together in an interesting way, regardless of any application that the work may have. It is simply a search for pretty mathematics. It may turn out later to have an application. Then one has good luck. At age 78.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, “Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let’s do something you can really learn from!

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.

In whatever you choose to do, do it because it's hard, not because it's easy. Math and physics and astrophysics are hard. For every hard thing you accomplish, fewer other people are out there doing the same thing as you. That's what doing something hard means. And in the limit of this, everyone beats a path to your door because you're the only one around who understands the impossible concept or who solves the unsolvable problem.