Quotes about Mathematics

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The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the — G.K. Chesterton
I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept? — Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four — Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun
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
Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one?A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.Q. Ca — Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy
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 — 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
[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with — Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cooki — Bill Gaede
Teachers greatly influence how students perceive and approach struggle in the mathematics classroom. Even young students — National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All
In my opinion, defining intelligence is much like defining beauty, and I don’t mean that it’s in the eye of the beholder — Marilyn Vos Savant
I abandoned the assigned problems in standard calculus textbooks and followed my curiosity. Wherever I happened to be--a — Jennifer Ouellette, The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse