“What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns.”
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“Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.”
Source: Elementary School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally
“I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.”
“Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.”
Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce
Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959
“Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.”
Source: The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
“Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.”
Source: Critique of pure reason
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
Source: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 1) (The Annotated Books)
Source: On the syllogism: and other logical writings
“Logic is one thing and commonsense another.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
“Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.”
Source: Closing the Ring
Source: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...
“All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.”
Source: The Scientific Outlook
Source: Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up
“He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.”
Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904
“I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.”
“In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.”
Source: Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Exact logic (Published papers).. The Simplest mathematics
Source: Aphorisms and reflections
Source: Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind
“Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.”
“The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
Source: Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
“{W}e can transfer the study of any formal system—in fact the study of”
Source: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid