Sunday 22 July 2012

Many more........ these words....wouldn't die.....

"As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school."
-Cokie Roberts

"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."
Albert Einstein

"God does arithmetic."
-Karl Friedrich Gauss

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
-Albert Einstein

"God made the natural numbers, all the rest is the work of man."
-Leopold Kronecker

"He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god."
-Plato

"How dare we speak of the laws of chance? Is not chance the antithesis of all law?"
-Bertrand Russell

"I admit that mathematical science is a good thing. But excessive devotion to it is a bad thing."
-Aldous Huxley

"I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate."
-David Mumford

"I don't believe in mathematics."
-Albert Einstein

"I have no faith in political arithmetic."
-Adam Smith

"If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy."
-Alfréd Rényi

"In great mathematics there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy."
-G. H. Hardy

"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."
-John Von Neumann

"It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it."
-Andrejs Dunkels

"Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics."
-Siméon Poisson

"Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning."
-John Locke

"Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another."
-Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle

"Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way."
-George Polya

"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
-David Hilbert

"[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence."
-William Wordsworth

"Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state."
-Plato

"Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself."
-Abraham Kaplan

"Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things."
-Jules Henri Poincaré

"Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way."
-Max Dehn

"Mathematics is the science of what is clear by itself."
-Carl Jacobi

"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."
-Bertrand Russell, referring to the axiomatic method, where certain properties of an (otherwise unknown) structure are assumed and consequences thereof are then logically derived

"Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense."
-Charles Darwin

"Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform."
-Bertrand Russell
"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
-Galileo Galilei

"Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful."
-Martin Luther

"No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important...The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?"
-Helen Keller

"One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers, that we get more out of them than was originally put into them."
-Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

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