Thoughts on Mathematics and
Studying.
Do not worry too much about your
difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater.
Albert
Einstein
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
Paul
Erdös
So if 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.
Sir
Francis Bacon
I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth
was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. But it was after dinner and I let it
go.
Winston
Churchill
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which
isn't there.
Charles
Darwin
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly
Sills
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to
make complicated things simple.
S.
Gudder
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an
independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser
than we are, wiser even than their discoverers, that we get more out of them
than we originally put in to them.
Heinrich
Hertz
One person's constant is another person's variable.
Susan
Gerhart
Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what
are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may be more than
half done.
Israel
Nathan Herstein
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of
any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.
Paul
Dirac
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure
reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience.
Emmanuel
Kant
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James
Joyce
When you can measure what you are talking about and express it in numbers, you
know something about it.
Lord
Kelvin
Ask a philosopher "What is philosophy?" or a historian "What is history?",
and they will have no difficulty in giving an answer. Neither of them, in fact,
can pursue his own discipline without knowing what he is searching for. But ask
a mathematician "What is mathematics?" and he may justifiably reply that he
does not know the answer but that this does not stop him from doing
mathematics.
Francois
Lasserre
The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter,
must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him
in intelligence.
Ernst
Mach
A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded that he cannot do, never does all he
can.
John
Stuart Mill
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the
support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham
Lincoln
Students must learn that mathematics is the most human of endeavors. Flesh and
blood representatives of their own species engaged in a centuries long creative
struggle to uncover and to erect this magnificent edifice. And the struggle
goes on today. On the very campuses where mathematics is presented and received
as an inhuman discipline, cold and dead, new mathematics is created. As sure as
the tides.
J.
Phillips
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert
Einstein
I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God
help you, for so am I, only with this difference, I stick fast in the mud at
the bottom and there I shall remain.
Charles
Darwin
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, it is a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
Never say of a branch of mathematics, "There's something I don't need to
know." It always comes back to haunt you.
Charles
Rickart
Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is
only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one universal science and the
one whose ... ground rules are taught us almost in infancy and reappear in the
motions of the universe.
Henry
J.S. Smith
There is no more a math mind, than there is a history or an English mind.
Gloria
Steinem
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of
a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
Alan
Turing
Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced ... the state of lucid
exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously ... this
feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced
it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by
dogged work...
André
Weil
With many calculations, one can win; with few one cannot. How much less chance
of victory has one who makes none at all!
Sun Tzu
'Art of War'
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to
be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived.
William
Jennings Bryant
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
Francis
Crawford
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas
Edison
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than
any other one thing.
Abraham
Lincoln
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated
efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great
victory.
Orison
Swett Marden
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail
Van Buren
