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

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. -- Anas 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

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

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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

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 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." -- 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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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

"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 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
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 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 Poincar 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 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 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 1 2 "There is no Royal Road to Geometry." -- Euclid "Mathematics is the Queen of the Sciences." - Carl Friedrich Gauss "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 "One machine can do the work of fifty men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." "If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." -- Isaac Newton "When I get a little money, I buy books and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." -- Erasmus "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 "Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it." -- Buddha "A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled." -- Plutarch "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances." -- Martha Washington "The world is not given to you by your parents. It is loaned to you by your children." -- Kenyan proverb "If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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 "What happens to you in life is not as important as your attitude toward it." "The secret of success is to have more good days than bad days." "The second most important job in the world, second only to being a good parent, is being a good teacher." -- S.G. Ellis "Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." -- Peter Marshall. "Forget committees. New, noble, world-changing ideas always come from one person working alone." -- H. Jackson Brown, Life's Little Instruction Book

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"The most important questions in life are, for the most part, really only problems of probability." -- Pierre Simon de La Place "I do not teach, I relate." -- Montaigne "The more you know, the less sure you are." -- Voltaire "Well done is better than well said." -- Ben Franklin "Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare." -- Descartes "Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency." -- Descartes "Cogito, Ergo Sum. I think, therefore I am." -- Descartes

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"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest people of past centuries." -- Descartes "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." -- Winston Churchill "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 "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." "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 "Old principals never die, they just lose their faculties." "How you teach is more important than what you teach." "Life is too short for long division."

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"Natural numbers are better for your health." "Decimals have a point." "Calculus has its limits." "Geometry is just plane fun." "Polar coordinates aren't just arctic fashions." "The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated." -- Ben Franklin. "A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature." "Old math teachers never die; they just pass into another sphere." "Knowledge exists to be imparted." -- Emerson "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. "Life is a ladder: Every step we take is either up or down." -- Brewster "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." "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." "Small minds discuss persons. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas. Really great minds discuss mathematics." "There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not someday be applied to the phenomena of the real world." -- Nicolai Lobachevsky "Logic is the anatomy of thought." -- John Locke; "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 "The mathematical rules of the universe are visible to men in the form of beauty." -- John Michel "It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician." -- de Morgan "The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal." -- William James; "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 "It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in

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"All the effects of nature are only mathematical results of a small number of immutable laws." - La Place "Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." -- Leibniz "The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple." -- S. Gudder "I recoil with dismay and horror at this lamentable plague of functions which do not have derivatives. -- Charles Hermite "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 "The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man." -- David Hilbert "The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit." -- C. Jacobi "One person's constant is another person's variable." -- Susan Gerhart "People who don't count won't count." -- Anatole France "An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages." -- de Fontenelle "Do not worry too much about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater." -- Albert Einstein "Mathematics is the gate and key to the sciences." -- Roger Bacon "Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic." -- Pierre Boatroux; "Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her." -- D'Alembert

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"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) "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." -- Albert Einstein "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein "The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately connected with the prosperity of the state." -- Napoleon "The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word." -- W. F. Osgood "The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind." -- James Pierpont "Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself." -- Plato

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"Geometry existed before creation." -- Plato "God ever geometrizes." -- Plato "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here." -- inscription above Plato's Academy "Circles to square and cubes to double would give a man excessive trouble." -- Matthew Prior "Wherever there is number, there is beauty." -- Proclus "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." -- Marcel Proust "There is geometry in the humming of the string." -- Pythagoras "What would life be without arithmetic but a scene of horrors?" -- Sydney Smith "A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician." -- Karl Weierstrass "Mathematics is the science of definiteness, the necessary vocabulary of those who know." -- W. J. White "The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit." -- Alfred North Whitehead "Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world." -- Alfred North Whitehead "The science of Pure Mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. -- Alfred North Whitehead "Black holes are where God divided by zero." -- Steven Wright "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 "Math class is tough." -- Barbie Doll (1992) "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 "It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think." -- John Wesley Young "Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations." -- Ralph Boas "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." -- John Adams "Mathematics is not a spectator sport!" "He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god." -- Plato

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"The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing." -- Leopold Kronecker "Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful." -- Martin Luther "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 "Mathematics is the life of the gods." -- Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) "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 "Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way." -- George Polya "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 "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 "Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics." -- E.T. Bell "Mathematics is written for mathematicians." -- Copernicus "I was x years old in the year x^2." -- Augustus De Morgan (when asked about his age) "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." -- Rene Descartes "It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well." -- Descartes "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- Benjamin Disraeli "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." -- Albert Einstein "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." -- Albert Einstein "The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought." -- Havelock Ellis "Whenever you can, count." -- Sir Francis Galton "Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper." -- David Hilbert "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

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"Mathematics is the science of what is clear by itself." -- Carl Jacobi "Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics." -- Kasner and Newman "No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically." -- Leonardo da Vinci "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 "All great therorems were discovered after midnight." -- Adrian Mathesis "In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them." -- Johann von Neumann "Life is good for only two things: discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics." -- Simeon Poisson "A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction." -- Tolstoy

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"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 "Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature." -- John Allen Paulos "There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved." -- Henri Poincare "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 "Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort." -- George Polya "Teaching is the royal road to learning." -- Jassamyn West "We only think when confronted with a problem." -- John Dewey "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 "One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never." -- Alexandre Dumas "Geometry is the foundation of all painting." -- Albrecht Durer "The arithmetic of life does not always have a logical answer."

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"I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry." -- Ice-T "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 "God exists since mathematics is consistent and the devil exists since we cannot prove the consistency." -- Morris Kline "Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do." -- Donald Knuth "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." -- Horace Mann "Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand." -- Native American saying "Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away." -- Paul Brodeur "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." -- B. F. Skinner "Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man." -- W. B. Smith "Nature's great book is written in mathematics." "Numbers constitute the only universal language." -- Galileo --Nathanael West

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"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer." "The essence of mathematics is in its freedom." -- Georg Cantor

"Mathematics, in one view, is the science of infinity." -- P. Davis and R. Hersh "From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery." -- Alfred North Whitehead "Mathematics -- this may surprise or shock some -- is never deductive in creation." -- Paul Halmos "Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition." -- Morris Kline "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 "Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children." -- Walt Disney "The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination." -- Augustus de Morgan "Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself any more." -- Albert Einstein "Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end." -- Paul Erdos "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 "I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine -mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books." -- M.C. Escher "Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless." -- Euripides

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"Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal." -- Patrick Ewing "The calculus is one of the greatest edifices constructed by mankind." -- Cambridge Conference on School Mathematics "Statistics are no substitute for judgment." "Alcohol and Calculus Don't Mix; -- Henry Clay

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"You don't have to teach people to be human. You need to teach them how to stop being inhuman." -- Eldridge Cleaver "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 "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 "All mathematicians share ... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics." -- Martin Gardner "Mathematical knowledge adds vigor to the mind, frees it from prejudice, credulity, and superstition." -- John Arbuthnot "The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry,

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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" "Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind." -- Hermann Weyl "A diagram is worth a thousand words." -- Dr. Carl E. Linderholm "Where the pessimist sees a half-closed interval, the optimist sees a half-open interval." "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 "There are 10 types of people in the world -- Those who understand binary, and those who don't." "Character is what you are when no one is watching." "Morality, like art, consists in drawing a line somewhere." "The heart of education is education of the heart." "Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life." - Mary Hatwood Futrell "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it." -- Charles Swindoll "If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." -- Frank A. Clark "Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes." -- Mickey Mouse "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 "The only angle from which to approach a problem is the TRY-Angle" "Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it!" "Newton's First Law: Somedays it's better to stay in bed." "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." -- Malcolm S. Forbes "The shortest distance between two points is under construction."

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"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." - Linus Pauling "Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten but they may start a winning game." - Goethe "Questions are creative acts of intelligence." - Frank Kingdon "A learned man is an idler who kills time by study." - George Bernard Shaw "Nothing was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Emerson "Our minds are finite, and even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite; and the

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"From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician." -- James Hopwood Jeans "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 "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 "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 "But don't panic. Base 8 is just like Base 10 really. missing two fingers." -- Tom Lehrer "Sufficient unto the day is the rigor thereof. -- Eliakim H. Moore "Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths. -- Morris Kline "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 "Mathematics -- the subtle fine art." -- Jamie Byrnie Shaw" If you're

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"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 "Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas." -- Edward Kasner and James R. Newman "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 "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 "Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. test first, and the lesson afterward." "Not everything that counts can be counted. Not everything that can be counted counts. -- Albert Einstein It gives you the

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"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) "The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers." -- Scott Adams "42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot." -- Steven Wright "Five out of four people have trouble with fractions." -- Steven Wright "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 "Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt." -- Izaak Walton "Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions." -- Benjamin Peirce "Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics." -- Leonardo da Vinci "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty." -- Bertrand Russell "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 "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 "Numerical precision is the very soul of science." -- Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson "All the mathematical sciences are founded on the relations between physical laws and laws of numbers." -- James Clerk Maxwell "I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning." -- Plato "Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend." -- Francis Bacon "A few honest men are better than numbers." -- Oliver Cromwell "Q.E.D. (Quod Erat Demonstrandum: Which was to be proven.)" -- Euclid "Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio." -- Thomas Robert Malthus "The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus." -- Pierre de La Place

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"Now don't be sad, 'cause two out of three ain't bad." -- Meatloaf "Statistics means never having to say you're certain." "Without geometry life is pointless." "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 "Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics." -- Godfrey Harold Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology (1940) "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. "Physicists defer only to mathematicians, and mathematicians defer only to God." "Biologists think they are biochemists, Biochemists think they are Physical Chemists, Physical Chemists think they are Physicists, Physicists think they are Gods, And God thinks he is a Mathematician." "Old math teachers never die - they just lose their functions." "Ganas is all you need." [Ganas is Spanish for passion, guts, determination, desire] - Jaime Escalante "I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas [Spanish for desire], I can make them do it." - Jaime Escalante "Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration." -- Thomas Alva Edison "To teach is to learn." "To learn, you must want to be taught." Proverbs 12:1 "Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently." -- Henry Ford "To infinity and beyond."" Buzz Lightyear "I think, therefore I laugh." -- John Allen Poulos "I do not think -- therefore I am not." "Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives." "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 "The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math." "With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of the calculus

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"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 "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." -- George Washington Carver "Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable." -- Norman Cousins "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. "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 "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 "[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 "We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers." -- Galileo Galilei "The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment."

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"One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories." -- P.J. Davis "Common integration is only the memory of differentiation..." -- A. De Morgan "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 "Numbers are the free creation of the human mind." -- Richard Dedekind "The linear-programming was -- and is -- perhaps the single most important real-life problem." -- Keith Devlin "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 "Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes." -- John Dewey "Education is not a preparation for life, education is life itself." -- John Dewey "One of the most important concepts in all of mathematics is that of function." -- T.P. Dick and C.M. Patton "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

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"A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?" -- Martin Gardner "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 "The most important outcome of education is to help students to become independent of formal education." -- Paul E. Gray "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 "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 "The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers!" -- R. W. Hamming "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 "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 "The struggle to become a better teacher begins all over again with the advent of each new class." -- Martin Henley "Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should

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"The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds." -- John F. Kennedy "...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him." -- John Kemeny "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 "Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations of nature which involve time." -- Sophus Lie "The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind." -- B. Mandelbrot "The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil to learn is hammering on cold iron." -- Horace Mann "God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets." -- Gian Carlo Rota "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 "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 "Zeno was concerned with three problems...These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity." -- Bertrand Russell "You get what you settle for." -from the movie Thelma and Louise Louise Sawyer,

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"Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?" -- Dr. Seuss "If you hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example." -- George Bernard Shaw "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 "Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues

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"The greatest unsolved theorem in mathematics is why some people are better at it than others." -- Adrian Mathesis "Logic doesn't apply to the real world." -Marvin Lee Minsky

"You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy." -- Max Rosenlicht "Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be." -- Bertrand Russell "If you would make a man happy, do not add to his possessions but subtract from the sum of his desires." -- Seneca "We think in generalities, but we live in details." -- Alfred North Whitehead "Learning to solve problems is the principal reason for studying mathematics." -- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics "High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation." -- Jack Kinder "To state a theorem and then to show examples of it is literally to teach backwards." -- E. Kim Nebeuts "Man can not discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." -- Andre Gide "Mathematics is not a deductive science that's a clich. 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 "It's not the situation ... it's your reaction to the situation." -- Robert Conklin "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 "Success does not consist in never making mistakes, but in never making the same one a second time." -- George Bernard Shaw "Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why." - Bernard Baruch "In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back." -- Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz) "The symbolism of algebra is its glory. -- William Betz But it also is its curse."

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"If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane." -- Jimmy Buffett "We use only 10% of our brains Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!" -- Ellen DeGeneres "The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable." - K. Dewdney "Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog." -- Doug Larson "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein "You can not feed the hungry on statistics." -- Heinrich Heine

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"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need our advice." -- Bill Cosby "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. That's relativity." -- Albert Einstein "Start every day off with a smile and get it over with." -- W.C. Fields "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." -- Groucho Marx "Hardware -- the parts of a computer that can be kicked." -- Jeff Pesis "He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." - Confucius "Do the math: Count your blessings."

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"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 "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 "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 "The surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness." -- Montaigne "Do math and you can do anything. " -- N.C.T.M. slogan "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- Paul Erdos

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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 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 It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. -- G. K. Chesterton Mathematics is an independent world created out of pure intelligence. -- Wordsworth, William Read Euler: he is our master in everything. -- Pierre-Simon de Laplace 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 Charlie Chaplin once allegedly said to Albert Einstein: "The people applaud me because everyone understands me, and they applaud you because no one understands you."

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