| Date |
Title |
First Line of Text ... |
| 11/22/2009 |
heinlein |
Anyone who cannot cope with nathematics is not fully human.... |
| 11/15/2009 |
leibowitz |
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algeb... |
| 11/8/2009 |
roberts |
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be praye... |
| 11/1/2009 |
rogelstad |
I believe that my mission as a teacher is threefold. First... |
| 10/25/2009 |
phillips |
Ex = Has-been
Spurt = A drip under pressure
Expert = Has-... |
| 10/18/2009 |
hein |
Problems
Problems worthy
of attack
prove their worth
by... |
| 10/11/2009 |
holt |
I think I understand something when I can:
State it in... |
| 10/4/2009 |
hoffer |
In times of change, the learner will inherit the earth wh... |
| 9/27/2009 |
hoffman |
Mathematics is order and beauty at its purest, order that... |
| 9/20/2009 |
anon |
People don't care what you know, until they know that you... |
| 9/13/2009 |
Aristotle |
The primary question is not "What do we know"
... |
| 8/30/2009 |
einstein |
To begin the school year, I am reprinting a "classic&quo... |
| 5/31/2009 |
harris |
There is no subject taught that is more dangerous to the ... |
| 5/24/2009 |
bacon |
So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathema... |
| 5/17/2009 |
anglin |
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared hi... |
| 5/10/2009 |
descartes |
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
Rene... |
| 5/3/2009 |
crannell |
Mathematicians are fortunate because these two things--wh... |
| 4/26/2009 |
bouldin |
We can discuss technology, the Harvard project, the new a... |
| 4/19/2009 |
kline |
The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical pr... |
| 4/12/2009 |
bronowski |
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin,... |
| 3/29/2009 |
frost |
I am not a teacher...
I am an awakener.
Robert Fros... |
| 3/22/2009 |
deming |
You don't just learn knowledge; you have to create it. Ge... |
| 3/15/2009 |
confucious |
Tell me, and I will forget.
Show me, and I may remember.... |
| 3/8/2009 |
anon |
How I wish I could determine pi. "Eureka!" crie... |
| 3/1/2009 |
churchill |
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an ... |
| 2/22/2009 |
chinese proverb |
Learning without thinking is labor lost; thinking without... |
| 2/15/2009 |
plutarch |
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled... |
| 2/8/2009 |
jacobi |
Mathematics is the science of what is clear by itself.
... |
| 2/1/2009 |
darwin |
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new ... |
| 1/25/2009 |
mann |
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring th... |
| 1/18/2009 |
arbuthnot |
Mathematical knowledge adds vigor to the mind, frees it fro... |
| 1/11/2009 |
mayr |
Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language... |
| 1/4/2009 |
polya |
The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proporti... |
| 12/14/2008 |
hardy |
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or poet's ... |
| 12/7/2008 |
einstein |
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysteri... |
| 11/30/2008 |
Cross |
Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learn... |
| 11/23/2008 |
stout |
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up a... |
| 11/16/2008 |
Edwin Moise |
To reduce a word problem to a well-defined computational ... |
| 11/9/2008 |
Goal of a Mathematics Teacher |
I want them to understand that there is a playground in t... |
| 11/2/2008 |
Joubert |
To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert
French mor... |
| 10/26/2008 |
keyser |
To challenge the human worth of mathematics, to challenge... |
| 10/19/2008 |
skinner |
Education is what survives when what has been learned has... |
| 10/12/2008 |
adams |
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his i... |
| 10/5/2008 |
augustine |
The good Christian should be wary of mathematicians and a... |
| 9/28/2008 |
Anon |
A teacher who fails to read and think, fails to teach.
O... |
| 9/21/2008 |
dryden |
A man should be learned in several sciences, and should h... |
| 9/14/2008 |
ellis |
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the lad... |
| 9/7/2008 |
pasteur |
In the field of observation, chance only favors those min... |
| 8/31/2008 |
poul anderson |
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated,
whi... |
| 6/15/2008 |
weyl |
"Mathematizing" may well be a creative activity... |
| 6/8/2008 |
chesterton |
It isn't that they can't see the solution.
It is that t... |
| 6/1/2008 |
weyl |
Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep ... |
| 5/11/2008 |
poisson |
Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics... |
| 5/4/2008 |
grade one student |
20 + 20 = 40
3 + 3 = 6
I did pluses 20 + 20 = 40
Like ... |
| 4/27/2008 |
mosteller |
It is easy to lie with statistics,
but it's easier to l... |
| 4/20/2008 |
wells |
Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for eff... |
| 4/13/2008 |
young |
Mathematics has beauties of its own--a symmetry and propo... |
| 4/6/2008 |
reid |
Mathematics, once fairly established on the foundation of... |
| 3/30/2008 |
hermite |
Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the ... |
| 3/23/2008 |
caballero |
I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they ... |
| 3/16/2008 |
And Vice Versa... |
Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
Greg E... |
| 3/9/2008 |
parker |
Perhaps students' reluctance to use graphs is inherent in... |
| 2/26/2008 |
holmes |
Greatness is not where we stand
but in what direction we... |
| 2/25/2008 |
|
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.... |
| 2/24/2008 |
So Long, Long Division?...Some Thought! |
Let us consider two machines, each capable of dividing 1,12... |
| 2/17/2008 |
hardy |
I had better say something here about this question of age,... |
| 2/10/2008 |
edison |
Mathematicians make me tired. You ask them to wok out a s... |
| 2/3/2008 |
sawyer |
It was said of Ramanujan that every number seemed to be h... |
| 1/27/2008 |
wooden |
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
J... |
| 1/20/2008 |
burke |
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesti... |
| 1/13/2008 |
emerson |
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there... |
| 12/30/2007 |
lang |
Mathematics is often a lonely business.
Serge Lang
Math... |
| 12/16/2007 |
davis |
Numbers are an indispensible tool of civilization, servin... |
| 12/9/2007 |
kovalevsky |
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a po... |
| 12/2/2007 |
Davis |
Numbers, like men, have character. Just as there are tall... |
| 11/25/2007 |
oechslin |
Geometry has an ambiguous reputation, associated as much ... |
| 11/18/2007 |
flaubert |
Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Gustave Flaub... |
| 11/11/2007 |
michelangelo |
Ancora Imparo.
Michelangelo
Italian artist, age 87
Tra... |
| 11/4/2007 |
rose |
It is not the least of the virtues of mathematics
that i... |
| 10/28/2007 |
eddy |
Many of our students have the preconceived idea that the ... |
| 10/21/2007 |
einstein |
Not everything that can be counted countsand not everythi... |
| 10/14/2007 |
knowles |
The role of the teacher must be redefined from "one ... |
| 10/7/2007 |
rose |
To neglect either the deductive or the intuitive sides of... |
| 9/30/2007 |
sawyer |
The depressing thing about arithmetic badly taught is tha... |
| 9/23/2007 |
saul |
Fame rarely visits the mathematician. While the names Bee... |
| 9/16/2007 |
poul anderson |
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated,
whic... |
| 9/9/2007 |
willis |
Mathematics is not used as a selection device simply beca... |
| 9/2/2007 |
rose |
It is a typical device of mathematics to shake new concep... |
| 8/26/2007 |
bolker |
With common sense and some algebra you can understand the w... |
| 6/17/2007 |
How Little Things Change Over Time..... |
This old-time comic strip has a professor in front of pup... |
| 6/10/2007 |
random poetry |
I am b5ecoming th8e center of some circ5le,
all p9oints eq... |
| 6/3/2007 |
hillel |
The bashful cannot learn,
nor the irritable teach.
Hille... |
| 5/27/2007 |
bolker |
When I teach real problems at a reasonable rate
students f... |
| 5/20/2007 |
einstein |
The justification for a concept lies exclusively
in its cl... |
| 5/13/2007 |
borge |
I ate my tenderloin with a fork;
I ate my elevenderloin wi... |
| 5/6/2007 |
henry ford |
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, y... |
| 4/29/2007 |
henry ford |
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probabl... |
| 4/22/2007 |
donghia |
Assumption is the mother of screw-up.
Angelo Donghia
Amer... |
| 4/15/2007 |
Virgil |
Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.
Virgil
The Eclogues... |
| 4/8/2007 |
Trudeau |
Pure mathematics is the world's best game. It is more abso... |
| 4/1/2007 |
russell |
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing ... |
| 3/25/2007 |
auster |
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a... |
| 3/18/2007 |
hertz |
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formu... |
| 3/11/2007 |
preston |
If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers,... |
| 3/4/2007 |
twain |
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to b... |
| 2/25/2007 |
whitehead |
Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine ma... |
| 2/18/2007 |
bouton |
Statistics are about as interesting
as first-base coaches... |
| 2/11/2007 |
keller |
The only thing worse than not being able to see
is to be a... |
| 2/4/2007 |
An e-Quote! |
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sl... |
| 1/28/2007 |
bacon |
Mathematics is the door and key to the sciences.
Roger Bac... |
| 1/21/2007 |
kahan |
When one observes that 33+44+33+55=3435, one must acknowled... |
| 1/14/2007 |
szpiro |
But what are all these theorems and proofs good for? What a... |
| 1/7/2007 |
smith |
Geometry is a mountain. Vigor is needed for its ascent. The... |
| 12/31/2006 |
Thought for the New Year |
To be or not to be - that is the square root of 4 b2.
A. N... |
| 12/17/2006 |
aldington |
Perhaps it is true
that nothing worth knowing can be taug... |
| 12/10/2006 |
adams |
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questio... |
| 12/3/2006 |
friedman |
When I was growing up, my parents told me, "Finish you... |
| 11/26/2006 |
mencken |
Mathematics contains much that will neither hurt one if one... |
| 11/19/2006 |
luther |
Medicine makes people ill,
mathematics makes them sad
... |
| 11/12/2006 |
baker |
Mathematics must be written into the mind, not read into ... |
| 11/5/2006 |
Benacerraf |
17 is the one arbitrary random number. It's also calle... |
| 10/29/2006 |
hilton |
In reality, so much that goes into the traditional mathem... |
| 10/22/2006 |
Anon |
Math homework problems are two kinds, those that I know how... |
| 10/15/2006 |
Travail of a Math Student |
Normalistic madness! this math
Bound by the web of a graph... |
| 10/8/2006 |
Altshiller |
Mathematics in earnest should be fun;
mathematics in fu... |
| 10/1/2006 |
polya |
A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a ... |
| 9/24/2006 |
mcdonald |
Opportunity never comes. It's here.
Claude McDonald
... |
| 9/17/2006 |
turan |
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I... |
| 9/10/2006 |
hilton |
The study of mathematics starts with the teaching of arit... |
| 9/3/2006 |
disraeli |
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and sta... |
| 8/27/2006 |
davis |
A proof in a textbook on advanced topics is often a styli... |
| 6/25/2006 |
Gallagher |
Change is inevitable...except for a vending machine.
If th... |
| 6/18/2006 |
anderson |
Tests generally hold the student accountable to perform a f... |
| 6/11/2006 |
sigur |
Triangle geometry has more miracles per square meter than a... |
| 6/4/2006 |
borge |
There are three things I can never remember....
........... |
| 5/28/2006 |
speer |
The rules we use are not mathematics.
It's the processes... |
| 5/21/2006 |
maletsky |
You can't depend on your eyes
when your imagination is o... |
| 5/14/2006 |
brill |
Mathematics, more than any other human activity,
seems ... |
| 5/7/2006 |
luther |
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, an... |
| 4/30/2006 |
bored stu |
Dear God--
If I have but one hour remaining to live,
pl... |
| 4/23/2006 |
polya |
If you can't solve a problem,
then there is an easier pr... |
| 4/16/2006 |
proclus |
[Mathematics] arouses our inate knowledge, brings to ligh... |
| 4/9/2006 |
kronecker |
God Himself made the whole numbers--Everything else is th... |
| 4/2/2006 |
anon |
I'd like to have a battle of wits with you, but, you appear... |
| 3/26/2006 |
bradwardine |
Mathematics...reveals every genuine truth, for it knows e... |
| 3/19/2006 |
Jyotisa |
Like the crest of a peacock, like the gem on the head of ... |
| 3/12/2006 |
demorgan |
This mysterious 3.14159... which comes in at every door a... |
| 3/5/2006 |
kepler |
Geometria est archtypus pulchritudinis mundi.
(Geometry ... |
| 2/26/2006 |
swanson |
A Raytheon survey of American middle schoolers found that... |
| 2/19/2006 |
boyer |
Nothing pertaining to humanity becomes us so well as math... |
| 2/12/2006 |
keyser |
The golden age of mathematics--
that was not the age of ... |
| 2/5/2006 |
hankel |
In most sciences one generation tears down what another h... |
| 1/29/2006 |
Lobachevsky |
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, whic... |
| 1/22/2006 |
gauss |
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theor... |
| 1/15/2006 |
d'alembert |
Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked o... |
| 1/8/2006 |
barrow |
Mathematics--the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the... |
| 1/1/2006 |
bacon |
Neglect of mathematics works injury to all knowledge, s... |
| 12/16/2005 |
A "Holiday" Quote |
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights... |
| 12/11/2005 |
negroponte |
Impossible at MIT is a code word for "do it."
Nu... |
| 12/4/2005 |
degenres |
We use 10% of our brains.
Imagine how much we could accomp... |
| 11/27/2005 |
numb3rs |
Mathematics is more than formulas and equations.
It's logi... |
| 11/20/2005 |
Alan Saporta |
The best way to escape from a problem
is to solve it.
... |
| 11/13/2005 |
Johannes Kepler |
Geometry existed before the creation.
It is co-eternal wi... |
| 11/6/2005 |
kaiser |
Problems are opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. K... |
| 10/30/2005 |
lang |
Mathematics is often a lonely business.
Serge Lang
Ma... |
| 10/23/2005 |
novel |
The most profound joy for any scientist was when the abstra... |
| 10/16/2005 |
mitchell |
Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned... |
| 10/12/2005 |
|
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his i... |
| 10/9/2005 |
popper |
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must ... |
| 10/2/2005 |
young |
[Examinations] as a test of the pupil's attainments by some... |
| 9/25/2005 |
Laplace |
The most important questions in life are, for the most part... |
| 9/18/2005 |
Einstein mind-stretching |
Once the mind is stretched,
It will never return to its ... |
| 9/11/2005 |
Confucious |
If one learns only by memory,
and does not think,
all r... |
| 9/4/2005 |
supermarket counters |
It's easy to identify people who can't count to ten. The... |
| 8/28/2005 |
Paul Erdos |
Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beeth... |
| 8/21/2005 |
Simon Poisson |
Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics... |
| 8/14/2005 |
Charels Darwin |
A mathematician is a blind man
in a dark room looking f... |
| 8/7/2005 |
George Bernard Shaw |
The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more ... |
| 8/1/2005 |
Albert Einstein |
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can... |
| 7/31/2005 |
George Polya |
A mathematics teacher is a mid-wife
in the birth of ideas.... |
