Quotes by Math What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. ... If we are told that the same experiment will always produce the same result, that is all very well, but if when we try it, it does not, then it does not. We just have to take what we see, and then formulate all the rest of our ideas in terms of our actual experience. Richard P. Feynman mathphilosophyideas What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they are determined always by the material with which we work, by nature herself. We look, and we see what we find, and we cannot say ahead of time successfully what it is going to look like. ... It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions. Richard P. Feynman mindmathscience Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH. Rick Bayan mphmathtwo If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle. Rita Mae Brown sexymemorablemath Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade. Rob Brydon mathtwothinking I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21. Rita Rudner vegasmathschool I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math. Rob Marshall accountantshas-beensmath Two wrongs don't make a right. Roald Dahl humorousrevengemath I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives. Robert Anton Wilson engineeringviewsmath Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. Robert A. Heinlein shoeslearningmath Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth. Robert A. Heinlein dadmathjobs From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle. Robert A. Heinlein importantteachingmath A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it. Robert Daniel Carmichael obviousstatisticsmath There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and challenging statistics published by the government) as "common sense" and labeling everything they can't do as "math" - so that being bad at math becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Robert Eastaway governmenteducationmath Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old. Robert Breault learningimportantmath There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your hands. There's an intelligence with language that would lead someone into writing. So it's not necessarily that you're six years old and you know you're going to be a lawyer Or you're going into tech startups or computers. It's something more elemental than that. It's that this is a skill, a way of thinking that comes naturally to me that I was drawn to and it was very clear in childhood. Robert Greene mathwritingthinking Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package." Robert Kanigel ramanujandonemath The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it. Robert L. Park mathdiscoveryscience In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse. Robert McKee logicmathtwo What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm. Robert Penn Warren fearmathsleep«6061626364656667686970»
