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Professor Of Mathematics Inspirational Quotes (43)

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I don't know whether guys are more promiscuous or just bigger liars.
Jennifer Tour Chayes
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Combinatorialists and analysts always have different names for everything, in order to keep themselves from interacting.
Jennifer Tour Chayes
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Non-linear means it's hard to solve.
Arthur Mattuck
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Always try to innovate. If you lose your old fitness, you lose out to Bose-Einstein condensation. I am sure that companies that go under would feel better if they knew that they were victims of Bose-Einstein condensation.
Jennifer Tour Chayes
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Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.
Morris Kline
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Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.
Carl Benjamin Boyer
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Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.
Morris Kline
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In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.
Morris Kline
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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. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?
John Allen Paulos
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The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.
John Allen Paulos
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Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.
Arthur Mattuck
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Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.
Morris Kline
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The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
James A. Yorke
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A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.
Morris Kline
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Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!
John Allen Paulos
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The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement [P and not Q] and the statement [Q and not P].
John Allen Paulos
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I described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities α , β, γ that add-up to 1, and mentioned that it is like a three-sided coin. A few days later he came up with a patent application for a three-sided-coin.
Jennifer Tour Chayes
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The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.
John Allen Paulos
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The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column seem factual by comparison.
John Allen Paulos
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When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology.
John Allen Paulos
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In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.
John Allen Paulos
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One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market.
John Allen Paulos
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A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs.
Des MacHale
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I must admit that outside the university, it is difficult to be a pure mathematician. No one in my family understands what I do. My neighbors wonder why I spend all my time in my study scribbling with pencil on a yellow pad of paper instead of going outside to mow the lawn.
Isadore Singer
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