If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from — Neal Stephenson, Anathem

The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift t — Roman Payne

The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was "out — Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

The distance between your Dreams and Reality is inversely proportional to your Efforts. — Vineet Raj Kapoor

Teaching mathematics, like teaching any art, requires the ability to inspire the student. Inspiration requires marketing — Hartosh Singh Bal, A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel

There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to expres — Joseph Fourier, The Analytical Theory of Heat

Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or th — Roger Bacon, Mathematics

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Francis Bacon

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the fo — Francis Bacon

$No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact sa — Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form$

Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? — Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

A Puritan twist in our nature makes us think that anything good for us must be twice as good if it's hard to swallow. Le — Ellen Kaplan, Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free

If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.

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