Math Quotes - Page 24

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

There are no creeds in mathematics.

The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

All mathematics is tautology.

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.

Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

The infinitely competent can be uncreative.

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.

In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.

One can always reason with reason.

To teach effectively a teacher must develop a feeling for his subject; he cannot make his students sense its vitality if he does not sense it himself. He cannot share his enthusiasm when he has no enthusiasm to share. How he makes his point may be as important as the point he makes; he must personally feel it to be important.

People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver.

Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?

You're not born knowing how to do math. You're taught that. You're not born knowing how to hate someone. You're taught that. And so I feel I want to use my platform to raise awareness about it. To help raise something positive. In America, you look around and a lot of things that happen - it all stems from that.

Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the valve matter? What matters here?' - such an underrepresented question in math curriculum.

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.