Quotes by Math When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question? Enrico Bombieri wonder math sometimes I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles. Erez Lieberman Aiden math silly philosophy My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. Eric Allin Cornell math years school The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry. Eric Bell cowboy math moving I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind. Epicurus has-beens mind math In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring us into the wrong answers. Eric Butterworth wrong-answers principles math Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. Eric Hoffer trust math beauty Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. Eric Temple Bell intelligence taught math Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics. Eric Temple Bell math science knowledge I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. Eric Temple Bell machines understanding math Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes. Eric Temple Bell apes race math The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. Eric Temple Bell doubt math silly Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics. Eric Temple Bell math spring beauty If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number. Eric Temple Bell thrones math numbers A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war, number mysticism, astrology, and religion. In some instances, writers, hoping to assert for mathematics a noble parentage and a pure scientific experience, have turned away their eyes. Histories have been eager to put the case for science, but the Handmaiden of the Sciences has lived a far more raffish and interesting life than her historians allow. Eric Temple Bell mathematical mathematics math Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world Eric Thomas real math negative Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math parents must push and help their children to meet this goal. Ernest Istook technology math children If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. Ernest Rutherford math science needs The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence. Ernst Mach uncomfortable-feeling views math Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances. Ernst Mach circles math life «1920212223242526272829»
