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The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. “Success is achieved and maintained by those who keep trying." - by Napoleon Hill The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. -- Ferdinand Foch Make your mistakes work for you by learning from them. -- Donald Trump If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau Don't worry about things you can't control. Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts. -- The Kinks Most of us have lives too small for our spirits. -- Studs Terkel Don't worry about moving slowly, worry about standing still. -- Chinese proverb Be careful with whom you associate. Loser's rub off! -- Donald Trump I hope to die young at a very old age. The real secret of success is enthusiasm. -- Walter Chrysler, entrepreneur Always give more than what's expected. -- Donald Trump If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. -- Thomas Edison We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. -- Charles Kingsley, poet

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The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated

things simple.

“Success is achieved and maintained by those who keep trying."

- by Napoleon Hill

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. -- Ferdinand Foch Make your mistakes work for you by learning from them. -- Donald Trump If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live

the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau

Don't worry about things you can't control. Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up

with some imagination, and use your natural gifts. -- The Kinks Most of us have lives too small for our spirits. -- Studs Terkel Don't worry about moving slowly, worry about standing still. -- Chinese proverb Be careful with whom you associate. Loser's rub off! -- Donald Trump I hope to die young at a very old age. The real secret of success is enthusiasm. -- Walter Chrysler, entrepreneur Always give more than what's expected. -- Donald Trump If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound

ourselves. -- Thomas Edison We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when

all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. -- Charles Kingsley, poet

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry. -- Garth Brooks

Bloom where you are planted. For the most part I do the thing which my own nature drives me to do. -- Albert

Einstein An activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. –

John Updike, writer Regret for things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we

did not do that is inconsolable. -- Sydney J. Harris, writer Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and

leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Money is an article which may be used as a universal passport to everywhere

except heaven, and as a universal provider for everything except happiness. -- Wall Street Journal

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Work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching. -- U2

Listen. Don't just wait to talk. -- Donald Trump Keep away form people who try to belittle your ambitions.  Small people always

do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain

Never stop striving, never stop learning, never stop teaching. Do what's right. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -- Anaïs Nin The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will

make one. -- Elbert Hubbard Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried. -- Ralph

Waldo Emerson The most difficult thing is to just start the ball rolling. Once it starts, it's actually

more difficult to stop it. -- Butch Lovelace Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks

like work. -- Thomas Edison Work hard. Someone's always watching. -- Donald Trump So many times people end up fixated on doing things rights, that they end up

doing nothing at all. -- The Wright Brothers Your imagination is a preview to life's coming attractions. -- Albert Einstein The secret of getting ahead is getting started. I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the

hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. -- John D. Rockefeller

The next time you feel the urge to procrastinate -- just put it off. The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and

change. -- Carl Rogers and Jerome Freiberg, authors of Freedom to Learn I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. --

Thomas Jefferson It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives.  It's what we do

consistently. -- Anthony Robbins, best-selling author A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. -- Richard Bach I've missed 3000 shots. Twenty-six times the game-winning shot has been trusted

to me, and I've missed. I've lost over 300 games. I've failed over and over and over again, and that is why I've succeeded. -- Michael Jordan

Fall seven times, stand up eight. -- Japanese proverb Don't compromise your principles. -- Donald Trump Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to

success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never. -- Winston Churchill Great people create great acts of kindness. -- Cervantes

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Many of the things you can count don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. -- Albert Einstein

You have not lived a perfect day, unless you've done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. -- Ruth Smeltzer

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill

Without deviation, progress is not possible. -- Frank Zappa If you don't have a positive attitude in business and in life, you will never, ever

be successful. -- Donald Trump There's nothing in your life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right

attitude. -- Rick Warren Life is it's most exciting when it's full of possibilities -- Coolmath Karen The clearer your vision of what you seek, the closer you are to finding it. If you're not lighting any candles, don't complain about being in the dark. I will never give in until the day that I die. I'll get myself some independence,

carve out a future with my two bare hands. -- The Alarm It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble; it's what you know for sure

that ain't so. -- Mark Twain If at first you don't succeed, you're like everyone else who went on to greatness.

-- Patrick Combs Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something.

Don't just stand there, make it happen. -- Lee Iacocca, Chairman Chrysler Motors Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world. -- Hugh

Walpole, writer Treat people how you want to be treated. -- Donald Trump

1. Success in math does not depend on how many answers you know, but by what you do when you don't know the answer."

2. The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. --Einstein

3. Mathematics is the structure created and/or discovered in the human attempt to solve problems. Randy Maddox

4. "Mathematics is the Queen of the Sciences, and number theory the queen of mathematics.."-- Carl Friedrich Gauss

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5. "If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'"-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

6. "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will

eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true."-- Professor Robert Silensky

7. "Small minds discuss persons. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss

ideas. Really great minds discuss mathematics."

front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'"-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

8. "One machine can do the work of fifty men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

9. "If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."-- Isaac Newton

10. "When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes."-- Erasmus

11. "Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."-- Buddha

12. "A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled."-- Plutarch

13. "The world is not given to you by your parents. It is loaned to you by your

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children."-- Kenyan proverb

14. "If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

15. "In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us

would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization

along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest

responsibility anyone could have."-- Lee Iacocca

16. "What happens to you in life is not as important as your attitude toward it."

17. "The second most important job in the world, second only to being a good parent,

is being a good teacher."-- S.G. Ellis

18. "The more you know, the less sure you are."-- Voltaire

19. "Well done is better than well said."-- Ben Franklin

front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'"-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

20. "Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare."-- Descartes

21. "Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency."-- Descartes

22. "Cogito, Ergo Sum. I think, therefore I am."

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-- Descartes

23. "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest people of past centuries."-- Descartes

24. "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."-- Winston Churchill

25. "Teaching high school, in addition to knowing one's subject matter thoroughly and being able to convey it to others, requires the grit of a long-distance runner, the stamina of a boxer going 15 rounds, the temperament of a juggler and the street smarts of a three-card monte dealer."-- Professor Larry Cuban

26. "St. Augustine had good insight on the division of labor between God and his children when he wrote that we should work as if everything depended on our efforts and pray as if everything depended on the Almighty."

27. "If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 25 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job."-- Colman McCarthy in The Washington Post

28. "Old principals never die, they just lose their faculties."

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29. "How you teach is more important than what you teach."

30. "Life is too short for long division."

31. "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."-- Chinese Proverb.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.  ~John Louis von Neumann

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.  ~Carl Sandburg

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.  ~Albert Einstein

Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.  ~Albert Einstein

Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.  ~Author Unknown

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.  ~Isaac Barrow

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.  ~Calvin Trillin

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.  ~Stanislaw J. Lec, More Unkempt Thoughts

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.  ~Phil Pastoret

[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.  ~Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary

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"Every minute dies a man, Every minute one is born;"  I need hardly point out to you that this calculation would tend to keep the sum total of the world's population in a state of perpetual equipoise, whereas it is a well-known fact that the said sum total is constantly on the increase.  I would therefore take the liberty of suggesting that in the next edition of your excellent poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected as follows:  "Every moment dies a man, And one and a sixteenth is born."  I may add that the exact figures are 1.067, but something must, of course, be conceded to the laws of metre.  ~Charles Babbage, letter to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, about a couplet in his "The Vision of Sin"

Math is radical!  ~Bumper Sticker

There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web.  They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles.  Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience.  The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.  ~Gregory Benford, Timescape

It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class.  ~Author Unknown

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.  ~Author Unknown

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.  ~Carl Sandburg, "Arithmetic"

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.  ~Carl Sandburg, "Arithmetic"

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.  ~Richard Preston

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 T. Bell, The Development of Mathematics

So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if

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his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.  ~Francis Bacon, "Of Studies"

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.  ~S. Gudder

The human mind has never invented a labor-saving machine equal to algebra.  ~Author Unknown

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.  ~Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.  ~Dean Schlicter

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations.  It is the job of bank accountants.  ~Samuil Shchatunovski

Trigonometry is a sine of the times.  ~Author Unknown

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.  Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.  ~W.S. Anglin

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ~Paul Erdos

Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.  ~Alfred North Whitehead

The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, "refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings," and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to sense tried by the present-day kaleidoscope of events.  ~Morris Kline, Mathematics in Western Culture

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.  ~Carl Boyer, 1949, calculus textbook

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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, The Search for Truth

Sometimes it is useful to know how large your zero is.  ~Author Unknown

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.  ~Eric Hoffer, Reflections On The Human Condition

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.  ~William Thomson Baron Kelvin of Largs

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.  Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.  ~Bertrand Russell

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.  ~Gottfried Leibniz

How many times can you subtract 7 from 83, and what is left afterwards?  You can subtract it as many times as you want, and it leaves 76 every time.  ~Author Unknown

To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory.  Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts.  Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.  ~Ivars Peterson

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.  ~Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.  ~Harold Marston Morse

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics.  ~Gregory Bateson

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human.  At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.  ~Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

You may be an engineer if your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting the decimal point in the right place.  ~Author Unknown

The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones.  Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones we can't even begin to think about in any very definite way.  Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed.  Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions.  ~Ronald L. Graham

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it.  Mathematics alone

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would occupy me eight million years.  ~Mark Twain

Can you do Division?  Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?  ~Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.  ~Tobias Dantzig

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.  ~Nicholas Eberstadt, The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule

The mathematics are usually considered as being the very antipodes of Poesy.  Yet Mathesis and Poesy are of the closest kindred, for they are both works of the imagination.  ~Thomas Hill

The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed.  Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days."  Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7*7 (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all.  The light we receive from the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that....  The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses 50 times as much heat as the Earth by radiation.  Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E) temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C).  The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed....  [However] Revelations 21:8 says "But the fearful, and unbelieving...shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone."  A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, 444.6C.  We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C.  ~From Applied Optics, vol. 11, A14, 1972

I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.... ~Stendhal (Henri Beyle), The Life of Henri Brulard

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.  ~Albert Einstein, Sidelights on Relativity

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties; He integrates empirically.  ~Albert Einstein

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.  ~Paul Dirac

To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.  ~Hilda Phoebe Hudson

[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.  ~Lewis Carroll

[G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.  ~Henri Poincaré

Infinity is a floorless room without walls or ceiling.  ~Author Unknown

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we

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know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.  ~Bertrand Russell

God is real, unless declared integer.  ~Author Unknown

If a healthy minded person takes an interest in science, he gets busy with his mathematics and haunts the laboratory.  ~W.S. Franklin

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.  ~Arthur Stanley Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World

There was a young man from Trinity,Who solved the square root of infinity.While counting the digits,He was seized by the fidgets,Dropped science, and took up divinity.~Author Unknown

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...  ~Heinrich Hertz

In the binary system we count on our fists instead of on our fingers.  ~Author Unknown

There are 10 types of people in this world:  those who understand binary and those who don't.  ~Author Unknown

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.  ~Euclid

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes.  In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.  ~Hermann Hankel

Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence.  Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting.  I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.  ~Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

I know that two and two make four - & should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 & 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.  ~George Gordon, Lord Byron

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting.  There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.  ~Ernst Mach

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature.  Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.  ~Percy William Bridgman, The Way Things Are

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars.  That's subtraction.  ~Mae

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West

I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own.  A twelve is very different from a thirteen, for example.  Twelve is upright, conscientious, intelligent, whereas thirteen is a loner, a shady character who won't think twice about breaking the law to get what he wants.  Eleven is tough, an outdoorsman who likes tramping through woods and scaling mountains; ten is rather simpleminded, a bland figure who always does what he's told; nine is deep and mystical, a Buddha of contemplation....  ~Paul Auster, The Music of Chance

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?  ~Pliny the Elder, Natural History

Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.  ~Virgil, The Eclogues

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.  ~Philip J. Davis

Pure mathematics is the world's best game.  It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly.  It's free.  It can be played anywhere - Archimedes did it in a bathtub.  ~Richard J. Trudeau, Dots and Lines

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.  ~Bertrand Russell, 1912

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.  ~John Kemeny

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.  ~Robertson Davies, "Of the Conservation of Youth," The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks

0 "There is no Royal Road to Geometry." -- Euclid 1 "Mathematics is the Queen of the Sciences." - Carl Friedrich Gauss 2 "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true." -- Professor Robert Silensky 3 "One machine can do the work of fifty men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." 4 "If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." -- Isaac Newton 5 "When I get a little money, I buy books and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." -- Erasmus 6 "The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth." -- Marilyn vos Savant

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7 "Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it." -- Buddha 8 "A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled." -- Plutarch 9 "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances." -- Martha Washington 10 "The world is not given to you by your parents. It is loaned to you by your children." -- Kenyan proverb 11 "If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. 12 "In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have." -- Lee Iacocca 13 "What happens to you in life is not as important as your attitude toward it." 14 "The secret of success is to have more good days than bad days." 15 "The second most important job in the world, second only to being a good parent, is being a good teacher." -- S.G. Ellis 16 "Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." -- Peter Marshall.

17 "Forget committees. New, noble, world-changing ideas always come from one person working alone." -- H. Jackson Brown, Life's Little Instruction Book 18 "The most important questions in life are, for the most part, really only problems of probability." -- Pierre Simon de La Place 19 "I do not teach, I relate." -- Montaigne 20 "The more you know, the less sure you are." -- Voltaire 21 "Well done is better than well said." -- Ben Franklin 22 "Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare." -- Descartes

23 "Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency." -- Descartes 24 "Cogito, Ergo Sum. I think, therefore I am." -- Descartes

25 "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest people of past centuries." -- Descartes 26 "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." -- Winston Churchill

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27 "Teaching high school, in addition to knowing one's subject matter thoroughly and being able to convey it to others, requires the grit of a long-distance runner, the stamina of a boxer going 15 rounds, the temperament of a juggler and the street smarts of a three-card monte dealer." -- Professor Larry Cuban 28 "St. Augustine had good insight on the division of labor between God and his children when he wrote that we should work as if everything depended on our efforts and pray as if everything depended on the Almighty." 29 "If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 25 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job." -- Colman McCarthy in The Washington Post 30 "Old principals never die, they just lose their faculties." 31 "How you teach is more important than what you teach."

32 "Life is too short for long division."

33 "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." -- Chinese Proverb. 34 "Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer." 35 "Old math teachers never die, they just tend to infinity."

36 "Old teachers never die; they just lose their class."

37 "Natural numbers are better for your health."

38 "Decimals have a point." 39 "Calculus has its limits."

40 "Geometry is just plane fun."

41 "Polar coordinates aren't just arctic fashions."

42 "The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated." -- Ben Franklin.

43 "A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature."

44 "Old math teachers never die; they just pass into another sphere."

45 "Knowledge exists to be imparted." -- Emerson

46 "An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living and doesn't teach them how to live." -- Charles Snitow.

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47 "Life is a ladder: Every step we take is either up or down." -- Brewster

48 "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

49 "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you will realize why some people think golf is exciting."

50 "Small minds discuss persons. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas. Really great minds discuss mathematics."

51 "There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not someday be applied to the phenomena of the real world." -- Nicolai Lobachevsky 52 "Logic is the anatomy of thought." -- John Locke; 53 "I tell them if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics, they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh." -- Thomas Mann 54 "The mathematical rules of the universe are visible to men in the form of beauty." -- John Michel

55 "It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician." -- de Morgan 56 "The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal." -- William James; 57 "We have to reinvent the wheel every once in a while, not because we need a lot of wheels; but because we need a lot of inventors." -- Bruce Joyce 58 "It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul. -- Sophia Kovalevskaya

59 "All the effects of nature are only mathematical results of a small number of immutable laws." - La Place

60 "Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." -- Leibniz 61 "The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple." -- S. Gudder 62 "I recoil with dismay and horror at this lamentable plague of functions which do not have derivatives. -- Charles Hermite 63 "The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver." -- I.N. Herstein 64 "The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man." -- David Hilbert 65 "The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit." -- C. Jacobi 66 "One person's constant is another person's variable."

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-- Susan Gerhart 67 "People who don't count won't count." -- Anatole France 68 "An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages." -- de Fontenelle 69 "Do not worry too much about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater." -- Albert Einstein 70 "Mathematics is the gate and key to the sciences." -- Roger Bacon 71 "Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic." -- Pierre Boatroux; 72 "Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her." -- D'Alembert

73 "A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there." -- Charles Darwin (quoted by Jaime Escalante in the film, STAND and DELIVER) 74 "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." -- Albert Einstein

75 "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

76 "The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately connected with the prosperity of the state." -- Napoleon 77 "The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word." -- W. F. Osgood 78 "The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind." -- James Pierpont 79 "Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself." -- Plato

80 "Geometry existed before creation." -- Plato

81 "God ever geometrizes." -- Plato

82 "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here." -- inscription above Plato's Academy

83 "Circles to square and cubes to double would give a man excessive trouble." -- Matthew Prior

84 "Wherever there is number, there is beauty." -- Proclus

85 "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." -- Marcel Proust 86 "There is geometry in the humming of the string." -- Pythagoras 87 "What would life be without arithmetic but a scene of horrors?" -- Sydney Smith 88 "A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician." -- Karl Weierstrass 89 "Mathematics is the science of definiteness, the necessary

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vocabulary of those who know." -- W. J. White

90 "The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit." -- Alfred North Whitehead 91 "Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world." -- Alfred North Whitehead 92 "The science of Pure Mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. -- Alfred North Whitehead

93 "Black holes are where God divided by zero." -- Steven Wright

94 "The best teacher is not the one who knows most, but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful ..." -- H.L. Mencken

95 "Math class is tough." -- Barbie Doll (1992)

96 "After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone beyond it in any but the most superficial way." -- Isaac Asimov

97 "It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think." -- John Wesley Young

98 "Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations." -- Ralph Boas

99 "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." -- John Adams

100 "Mathematics is not a spectator sport!" 101 "He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god." -- Plato

102 "The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing." -- Leopold Kronecker

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

104 "There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else -- but persistent." -- Raoul Bott

105 "Mathematics is the life of the gods." -- Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)

106 "He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side. -- Plato

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

108 "Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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109 "How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve." -- W.H. Auden

110 "Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics." -- E.T. Bell

111 "Mathematics is written for mathematicians." -- Copernicus

112 "I was x years old in the year x^2." -- Augustus De Morgan (when asked about his age)

113 "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." -- Rene Descartes

114 "It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well." -- Descartes 115 "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- Benjamin Disraeli

116 "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." -- Albert Einstein

117 "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." -- Albert Einstein

118 "The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought." -- Havelock Ellis

119 "Whenever you can, count." -- Sir Francis Galton

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

121 "I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; in short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of the modern Major General." -- W.S. Gilbert in the Pirates of Penzance

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

123 "Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics." -- Kasner and Newman

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

125 "Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = e^x, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?" -- Francois le Lionnais

126 "All great therorems were discovered after midnight." -- Adrian Mathesis

127 "In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them." -- Johann von Neumann

128 "Life is good for only two things: discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics." -- Simeon Poisson

129 "A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the

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denominator, the smaller the fraction." -- Tolstoy

130 "I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it." -- Malcolm X

131 "Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature." -- John Allen Paulos

132 "There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved." -- Henri Poincare 133 "The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful." -- Henri Poincare

134 "Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort." -- George Polya

135 "Teaching is the royal road to learning." -- Jassamyn West

136 "We only think when confronted with a problem." -- John Dewey

137 "The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying." -- Jean Dieudonne

138 "One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never." -- Alexandre Dumas

139 "Geometry is the foundation of all painting." -- Albrecht Durer

140 "The arithmetic of life does not always have a logical answer." -- Inshirah Abdur-Rauf

141 "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." -- Henry Brooks Adams

142 "I am not a teacher, I am an awakener." -- Robert Frost

143 "It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts." -- Paul Halmos

144 "Mathematics should be fun." -- Peter J. Hilton

145 "I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry." -- Ice-T

146 "There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas -- developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre: e^(i pi) + 1 = 0... It appeals equally to the mystic, the scientist, the philosopher, the mathematician." -- Edward Kasner and James Newman

147 "God exists since mathematics is consistent and the devil exists since we cannot prove the consistency." -- Morris Kline

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148 "Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do." -- Donald Knuth

149 "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." -- Horace Mann

150 "Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand." -- Native American saying

151 "Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away." -- Paul Brodeur

152 "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." -- B. F. Skinner

153 "Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man." -- W. B. Smith

154 "Nature's great book is written in mathematics." -- Galileo

155 "Numbers constitute the only universal language." --Nathanael West

156 "To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."

157 "The essence of mathematics is in its freedom." -- Georg Cantor

158 "Mathematics, in one view, is the science of infinity." -- P. Davis and R. Hersh

159 "From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery." -- Alfred North Whitehead

160 "Mathematics -- this may surprise or shock some -- is never deductive in creation." -- Paul Halmos

161 "Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition." -- Morris Kline

162 "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this , which however the margin is not large enough to contain." -- Pierre de Fermat, referring to the result known as Fermat's Last Theorem

163 "How can it be that mathematics, a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?" -- Albert Einstein

164 "Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children." -- Walt Disney

165 "The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination." -- Augustus de Morgan

166 "Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself any more." -- Albert Einstein 167 "Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end." -- Paul Erdos

168 "We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future -- you create the future. The future is created through hard work." -- Jaime Escalante

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169 "I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine -- mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books." -- M.C. Escher

170 "Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless." -- Euripides

171 "Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal." -- Patrick Ewing

172 "The calculus is one of the greatest edifices constructed by mankind." -- Cambridge Conference on School Mathematics

173 "Statistics are no substitute for judgment." -- Henry Clay

174 "Alcohol and Calculus Don't Mix; Never Drink and Derive."

175 "You don't have to teach people to be human. You need to teach them how to stop being inhuman." -- Eldridge Cleaver

176 "By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year." -- Bill Clinton

177 "The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus, and everything in between, falls under this rubric. Happy is the person who comes to understand something and then gets to explain it." -- Marshall Cohen

178 "All mathematicians share ... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics." -- Martin Gardner

179 "Mathematical knowledge adds vigor to the mind, frees it from prejudice, credulity, and superstition." -- John Arbuthnot

180 "The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful." -- Aristotle

181 "My philosophy of learning, like my blood type, is be positive. Keeping student attitudes positive is vital to their success in learning. – David Pleacher"

182 "Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind." -- Hermann Weyl

183 "A diagram is worth a thousand words." -- Dr. Carl E. Linderholm

184 "Where the pessimist sees a half-closed interval, the optimist sees a half-open interval."

185 "Discovery lessons, students writing to learn mathematics, the teaching of so-called general problem solving concepts, field trips, math lab lessons, alternate assessments, collaborative partner tests, student presentations, and open-ended problems should all be used sparingly. I use some of them, but they have limited value. Pencil-and-paper analytic solutions are the heart of mathematics education." --Michael Stueben in Twenty Years Before the Blackboard

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186 "There are 10 types of people in the world -- Those who understand binary, and those who don't."

187 "Character is what you are when no one is watching."

188 "Morality, like art, consists in drawing a line somewhere."

189 "The heart of education is education of the heart."

190 "Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life." - Mary Hatwood Futrell

191 "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain

192 "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it." -- Charles Swindoll

193 "If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." -- Frank A. Clark

194 "Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes." -- Mickey Mouse

195 "Although I am absolutely without training or knowledge in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists." -- M.C. Escher

196 "The only angle from which to approach a problem is the TRY-Angle"

197 "Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it!"

198 "Newton's First Law: Somedays it's better to stay in bed."

199 "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." -- Malcolm S. Forbes

200 "The shortest distance between two points is under construction." -- Bill Sanderson

201 "He who laughs, lasts." -- Mary Pettibone Poole

202 "Positive attitudes bring positive results. Negative attitudes bring negative results."

203 "Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures." - George Polya

204 "If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it." - George Polya

205 "A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem." - George Polya206 "The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea." - George Polya

207 "There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer." - George Polya

208 "I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between." - George Polya

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209 "God wrote the universe in the language of mathematics." - Galileo

210 "If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."

211 "Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur

212 "New facts often trigger new ideas" - Osborn

213 "What is now proved was once only imagined" - Proverb

214 "Men who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."

215 "If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don’t go fishing, you’ll never catch any fish." - Alex F. Osborn

216 "Some people study all their life, and at their death have learned everything but to think." - Demergue

217 "The past must be a springboard, not a sofa." - Harold MacMillan

218 "A problem well stated is half-solved." - John Dewey

219 "The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." - Linus Pauling

220 "Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten but they may start a winning game." - Goethe

221 "Questions are creative acts of intelligence." - Frank Kingdon

222 "A learned man is an idler who kills time by study." - George Bernard Shaw

223 "Nothing was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Emerson

224 "Our minds are finite, and even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite; and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. " -- Alfred North Whitehead

225 "From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician." -- James Hopwood Jeans

226 "It is truth very certain that, when it is not in one's power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is more probable." -- Rene Descartes

227 "Thus 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

228 "But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer." -- Tom Lehrer 229 "But don't panic. Base 8 is just like Base 10 really. If you're missing two fingers." -- Tom Lehrer 230 "Sufficient unto the day is the rigor thereof.

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-- Eliakim H. Moore 231 "Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths. -- Morris Kline 232 "Mathematics is on the artistic side a creation of new rhythms, orders, designs, harmonies, and on the knowledge side, is a systematic study of various rhythms, orders, designs, and harmonies. -- William L. Schaaf

233 "Mathematics -- the subtle fine art." -- Jamie Byrnie Shaw"

234 "The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or poet's, must be beautiful. The ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: There is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. -- G. H. Hardy

235 "Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas." -- Edward Kasner and James R. Newman 236 "Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life." -- Cassius Jackson Keyser 237 "The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can be a science unless it pursues its path through mathematical exposition and demonstration." -- Leonardo Da Vinci

238 "Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward." 239 "Not everything that counts can be counted. Not everything that can be counted counts. -- Albert Einstein

240 "I had been to school ... and could say the multiplication table up to 6 x 7 = 35, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics anyway." -- Huckleberry Finn (by Mark Twain) 241 "The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers." -- Scott Adams

242 "42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot." -- Steven Wright

243 "Five out of four people have trouble with fractions." -- Steven Wright

244 "Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five." -- James McNeill Whistler

245 "Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt." -- Izaak Walton

246 "Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions." -- Benjamin Peirce

247 "Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by

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means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics." -- Leonardo da Vinci

248 "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty." -- Bertrand Russell

249 "Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but every possible world, must conform." -- Bertrand Russell

250 "The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty." -- Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

251 "Numerical precision is the very soul of science." -- Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

252 "All the mathematical sciences are founded on the relations between physical laws and laws of numbers." -- James Clerk Maxwell

253 "I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning." -- Plato

254 "Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend." -- Francis Bacon

255 "A few honest men are better than numbers." -- Oliver Cromwell

256 "Q.E.D. (Quod Erat Demonstrandum: Which was to be proven.)" -- Euclid

257 "Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio." -- Thomas Robert Malthus

258 "The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus." -- Pierre de La Place

259 "Now don't be sad, 'cause two out of three ain't bad." -- Meatloaf

260 "Statistics means never having to say you're certain."

261 "Without geometry life is pointless."

262 "The work of a teacher -- exhausting, complex, idiosyncratic, never twice the same -- is at its heart, an intellectual and ethical enterprise. Teaching is the vocation of vocations..." -- William Ayres

263 "Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics." -- Godfrey Harold Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology (1940)

264 "We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they teach, and who can communicate with kids." -- Parker I. Palmer in The Courage to Teach.

265 "Physicists defer only to mathematicians, and mathematicians defer only to God."

266 "Biologists think they are biochemists, Biochemists think they are Physical Chemists,

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Physical Chemists think they are Physicists, Physicists think they are Gods, And God thinks he is a Mathematician."

267 "Old math teachers never die –- they just lose their functions."

268 "Ganas is all you need." [Ganas is Spanish for passion, guts, determination, desire] -– Jaime Escalante

269 "I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas [Spanish for desire], I can make them do it." -– Jaime Escalante

270 "Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration." -- Thomas Alva Edison

271 "To teach is to learn."

272 "To learn, you must want to be taught." – Proverbs 12:1

273 "Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently." -- Henry Ford

274 "To infinity and beyond."" – Buzz Lightyear

275 "I think, therefore I laugh." -- John Allen Poulos

276 "I do not think -- therefore I am not."

277 "Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives."

278 "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell." -- St. Augustine

279 "The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math."

280 "With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the product of a long evolution that was neither initiated nor terminated by Newton and Leibniz, but in which both played a decisive part." -- Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins

281 "The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers." -- Keith Devlin

282 "It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because it deals with quantities... As the complete theory of almost every other science involves the use of calculus, so we cannot have a true theory of Economics without its aid." -- W. S. Jevons

283 "The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance." -- E. Purcell and D. Varberg

284 "But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the integral of a given quantity can be

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found or not." -- Johann Bernoulli

285 "You live your life between your ears." -- Bebe Moore Campbell

286 "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do addition," said the Red Queen." -- Lewis Carroll

287 "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." -- George Washington Carver

288 "Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable." -- Norman Cousins

289 "Education is learning more than it is being taught. It's the chemistry of curiosity exposed to information. In that sense all of life is potentially school. And even I can pass that." -- Bob Guiccione, Jr.

290 "The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another." -- Gosta Mittag-Leffler

291 "How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capitol building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world? -- John A. Paulos

292 "[Paradoxes of the infinite arise] only when we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited;" -- Galileo Galilei

293 "We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers." -- Galileo Galilei 294 "The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment." -- Alfred North Whitehead

295 "Bees … by virtue of a certain geometrical forethought … know that the hexagon is greater than the square and the triangle, and will hold more honey for the same expenditure of material." -- Pappas

296 "The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics…" -- Galilei Galileo

297 "I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn." -- Archimedes

298 "Education is indoctrination if you're white; subjugation if you're black." -- James Baldwin

299 "The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions." -- James Baldwin

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300 "No set of principles can guarantee a recipe for good practice (in teaching)." -- D. Ball and T. Schroeder

301 "All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension." -- Thomas Banchoff (in introduction to Flatland)

302 "The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world." -- David Berlinski

303 "The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy"s] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period in which hundreds of gleaming cogs are made to celebrate not only the time and date but the phases of the moon." -- David Berlinski

304 "Everything tries to be round." -- Black Elk

305 "Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and said, 'You make mathematics seem like fun.' I was inspired to reply, 'If it isn't fun, why do it?'" -- Ralph P. Boas

306 "Major paradoxes provide food for logical thought for decades and sometimes centuries." -- Nicholas Bourbaki

307 "Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself." -- Claude Bragdon

308 "The schools are a great theater in which we play out the conflicts in the culture." -- David Cohen and Barbara Neufeld

309 "Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." -- Confucius

310 "Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values -- maxima and minima -- has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science." -- Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins

311 "Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have." -- Charles Darwin

312 "One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories." -- P.J. Davis

313 "Common integration is only the memory of differentiation..." -- A. De Morgan

314 "I see it, but I don't believe it." [On Cantor's proof that the points in the unit interval were in one-to-one correspondence with points in the unit square.] -- Richard Dedekind

315 "Numbers are the free creation of the human mind." -- Richard Dedekind

316 "The linear-programming was -- and is -- perhaps the single most important real-life problem." -- Keith Devlin

317 "There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another." -- Keith Devlin

318 "Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes." -- John Dewey

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319 "Education is not a preparation for life, education is life itself." -- John Dewey

320 "One of the most important concepts in all of mathematics is that of function." -- T.P. Dick and C.M. Patton

321 "The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying." -- Jean Dieudonne

322 "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ. They showed me a picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me, "which one is different and does not belong?" They taught me different was wrong." -- Ani DiFranco

323 "you got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change." -- Ani DiFranco

324 "A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical." -- P.A.M. Dirac

325 "Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." -- Mike Ditka

326 "If there's no struggle, there's no progress." -- Frederick Douglass

327 "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

328 "Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life." -- W.E.B. DuBois

329 "How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it." -- Alexandre Dumas

330 "One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination." -- Freeman Dyson

331 "Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself." -- Sir Arthur Eddington

332 "There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something!" -- Thomas Edison

333 "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." -- Albert Einstein

334 "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

335 "The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences." -- Albert Einstein

336 "I have no particular talent. I am only inquisitive." -- Albert Einstein

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337 "In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton’s laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematics methods by means of deduction." -- Albert Einstein

338 "The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms." -- Albert Einstein

339 "The value of an education ... is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks." -- Albert Einstein

340 "Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

341 "It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes." -- Paul Erdos

342 "Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains." -- M.C. Escher

343 "Father [M.C. Escher] had difficulty comprehending that the working of his mind was akin to that of a mathematician. He greatly enjoyed the interest in his work by mathematicians and scientists, ..." -- George Escher

344 "For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear." -- Leonhard Euler

345 "After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential." -- Leonhard Euler

346 "Mathematics serves as a handmaiden for the explanation of the quantitative situations in other subjects, such as economics, physics, navigation, finance, biology and even the arts." -- H. F. Fehr

347 "On the other hand, it is impossible for a cube to be written as a sum of two cubes or a fourth power to be written as a sum of two fourth powers or, in general for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. For this I have discovered a truly wonderful proof, but the margin is too small to contain it." -- P. Fermat

348 "The journey for an education starts with a childhood question." -- David L. Finn

349 "Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them." -- Joseph Fourier

350 "The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries." -- Jean-Baptist-Joseph Fourier

351 "What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?" -- Benjamin Franklin

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352 "A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?" -- Martin Gardner

353 "One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater depths of mystery--and more totally useless--than the perfect numbers." -- Martin Gardner

354 "The most important outcome of education is to help students to become independent of formal education." -- Paul E. Gray

355 "The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ..." -- Paul Halmos

356 "A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept, and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one." -- Paul Halmos

357 "The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers!" -- R. W. Hamming

358 "A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas." -- G. H. Hardy

359 "In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generation adds a new story to the old structure." -- Herman Henkel

360 "The struggle to become a better teacher begins all over again with the advent of each new class." -- Martin Henley

361 "Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure." -- David Hilbert

362 "The discoveries of Newton have done more for England and for the race, than has been done by whole dynasties of British monarchs." -- Thomas Hill

363 "The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated." -- Edward Kasner and James Newman

364 "Where there is matter, there is geometry." -- Johannes Kepler

365 "The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds." -- John F. Kennedy

366 "...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him." -- John Kemeny

367 "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education." -- Martin Luther King, jr

368 "Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the

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explanation of all those elementary manifestations of nature which involve time." -- Sophus Lie

369 "The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind." -- B. Mandelbrot

370 "The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil to learn is hammering on cold iron." -- Horace Mann

371 "God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets." -- Gian Carlo Rota

372 "We cannot hope that many children will learn mathematics unless we find a way to share our enjoyment and show them its beauty as well as its utility." -- Mary Beth Ruskai

373 "Three passions ... have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." -- Bertrand Russell

374 "Zeno was concerned with three problems...These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity." -- Bertrand Russell

375 "You get what you settle for." -- Louise Sawyer, from the movie Thelma and Louise

376 "Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?" -- Dr. Seuss

377 "If you hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example." -- George Bernard Shaw

378 "One can invent mathematics without knowing much of its history. One can use mathematics without knowing much, if any, of its history. But one cannot have a mature appreciation of mathematics without a substantial knowledge of its history." -- Abe Shenitzer

379 "Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate...the guid to this growth is not calculation and formulas, but an open ended search for pattern." -- Lynn A. Steen

380 "What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns..." -- Lynn A. Steen

381 "There is a difference between not knowing and not knowing yet." -- Shelia Tobias

382 "Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it." -- Tolstoy

383 "Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation." -- Mark Twain

384 "Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics." -- John A. Van de Walle

385 "There is an astonishing imagination even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there is far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer." -- Francios Voltaire

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386 "Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations." -- John von Neumann

387 "Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection." -- Hermann Weyl

388 "I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting." -- Edith Wharton

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

390 "A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given." -- A. S. Besicovitch

391 "Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance." -- Morris Kline

392 "Poetry is as exact a science as geometry." -- Gustave Flaubert

393 "God is a child; and when he began to play, he cultivated mathematics. It is the most godly of man's games." -- V. Erath

394 "There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them." -- Plato

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

396 "In the fall of 1972 President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection. -- Hugo Rossi"

397 "Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry." -- Aleksandr Pushkin

398 "With me everything turns into mathematics." -- Descartes

399 "The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers." -- Sydney J. Harris

400 "God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. " -- Stephen Hawking

401 "One should always generalize." -- Carl Jacobi

402 "The greatest unsolved theorem in mathematics is why some people are better at it than others." -- Adrian Mathesis

403 "Logic doesn't apply to the real world." -- Marvin Lee Minsky

404 "You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy." -- Max Rosenlicht

405 "Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be." -- Bertrand Russell

406 "If you would make a man happy, do not add to his possessions but subtract from the sum of his desires." -- Seneca

407 "We think in generalities, but we live in details."

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-- Alfred North Whitehead

408 "Learning to solve problems is the principal reason for studying mathematics." -- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

409 "High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation." -- Jack Kinder

410 "To state a theorem and then to show examples of it is literally to teach backwards." -- E. Kim Nebeuts

411 "Man can not discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." -- Andre Gide

412 "Mathematics is not a deductive science – that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork." -- Paul Halmos

413 "It's not the situation ... it's your reaction to the situation." -- Robert Conklin

414 "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." -- Reinhold Niebuhr

415 "Success does not consist in never making mistakes, but in never making the same one a second time." -- George Bernard Shaw

416 "Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why." -– Bernard Baruch

417 "In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back." -- Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)

418 "The symbolism of algebra is its glory. But it also is its curse." -- William Betz

419 "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true ... I no longer know how to use my telephone." -- Bjarne Stroustrup

420 "If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane." -- Jimmy Buffett

421 "We use only 10% of our brains… Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!" -- Ellen DeGeneres

422 "The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable." -– K. Dewdney

423 "Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog." -- Doug Larson

424 "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. –- Albert Einstein

425 "You can not feed the hungry on statistics." -- Heinrich Heine

426 "A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need our advice." -- Bill Cosby

427 "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour.

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That's relativity." -- Albert Einstein

428 "Start every day off with a smile and get it over with." -- W.C. Fields

429 "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." -- Groucho Marx

430 "Hardware -- the parts of a computer that can be kicked." -- Jeff Pesis

431 "He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." -– Confucius

432 "Do the math: Count your blessings."

433 "Students learn more when they complete homework that is graded, commented upon, and discussed by their teachers. The teacher's feedback -- reinforcing what has been done correctly and re-teaching what has not -- is key." -- Nancy Protheroe

434 "If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'" -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

435 "A math student's best friend is BOB (the Back Of the Book), but remember that BOB doesn't come to school on test days." -- Josh Folb

436 "The surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness." -- Montaigne 437 "Do math and you can do anything. " -- N.C.T.M. slogan

438 "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- Paul Erdos

439 “The pursuit of learning is not a piece of content that can be taught. It is a value that teachers model. Only teachers who are avid, internally motivated learners can truly teach their students the joy of learning.” -- Martin Haberman

440 “It isn't enough just to learn -- one must learn how to learn, how to learn without classrooms, without teachers, without textbooks. Learn, in short, how to think and analyze and decide and discover and create. -- Michael Bassis

441 “It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.” -- G. K. Chesterton

442 “Mathematics is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.” -- Wordsworth, William

443 “Read Euler: he is our master in everything.” -- Pierre-Simon de Laplace

444 “I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors.” -- James Caballero

445 Charlie Chaplin once allegedly said to Albert Einstein: "The people applaud

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me because everyone understands me, and they applaud you because no one understands you."