Quotes by Math With me, everything turns into mathematics. Rene Descartes mathematicalmathematicsmath Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe. Rene Descartes give-memathgiving When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear. Rene Descartes issuesmathwriting If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed. Rene Descartes naturemathanimal I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. Rene Descartes mathdiscoveryscience If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side. Rene Descartes battlemathwar I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive. Rene Descartes principlesmathmight Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being multi-step ones, a lot of technical skill, and then a broader view which contains the abstract nature of mathematics and proofs. One does not get all of these at once, but a good mathematics program has them as goals and makes incremental steps toward them at all levels. Richard Askey skillseducationmath ...I think there's only one [thing] that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology, or music, what you are really doing is, you are helping to shape the character of that person who is your student... Music is such a wonderful teaching tool, because while you are developing musical skills, that student can learn a lot about discipline [and] cooperation. Rich Mullins teachingmathcharacter We are justified in calling numbers a free creation of the human mind. Richard Dedekind mindmathnumbers The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. Richard Hamming learningmathnumbers Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane would or would not fly could depend on this difference? If such were claimed, I should not care to fly in that plane. Richard Hamming airplanemathbelieve No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard. Richard Kadrey cokewondermath Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making. Richard Louv naturemathart Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation. Richard P. Feynman mathsciencesex If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi. Richard Preston landscapemathnumbers To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world. Richard P. Feynman understandingbeermath A great deal more is known than has been proved. Richard P. Feynman dealshas-beensmath The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real. Richard P. Feynman understandingrealmath The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth." But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints. But also needed is imagination to create from these hints the great generalizations--to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all, and then to experiment to check again whether we have made the right guess. Richard P. Feynman simplemathscience«5960616263646566676869»
