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College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line.


Bill Gaede


#establishment #gaede #mathematical-physics #mathematicians #mathematics

I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.


Michael Grant


#humor #mathematics #humor

Is everyone with one face called a Milo?" "Oh no," Milo replied; "some are called Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things." "How terribly confusing," he cried. "Everything here is called exactly what it is. The triangles are called triangles, the circles are called circles, and even the same numbers have the same name. Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless." "I never thought of it that way," Milo admitted. "Then I suggest you begin at once," admonished the Dodecahedron from his admonishing face, "for here in Digitopolis everything is quite precise.


Norton Juster


#mathematics #names #equality

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.


Jodi Picoult


#happiness #inspirational #mathematical #inspirational

Mathematics is the art of explanation.


Paul Lockhart


#art

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.


Robert A. Heinlein


#mathematics

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.


Alain Badiou


#communism #euclid #geometry #mao #maoism

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.


Deepak Chopra


#balance #beauty #cosmos #deepak-chopra #energy

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.


Diane Cilento


#essays #good #i #loved #mathematics

You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.


Mos Def


#how #know #learn #mathematics #rhyme






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