// file named "quotes.js"
// JScript source code from Jaime Garcia-Ramirez
var quoteArray = new Array ();
quoteArray[0] = "\"There is no Royal Road to Geometry.\"" + "
" + " -- Euclid";
quoteArray[1] = "\"Mathematics is the Queen of the Sciences, and number theory the \n" +
"queen of mathematics..\"" + "
" + " -- Carl Friedrich Gauss";
quoteArray[2] = "\"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a\n" +
"million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire\n" +
"works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we\n" +
"know this is not true.\"" + "
" + " -- Professor Robert Silensky";
quoteArray[3] = "\"One machine can do the work of fifty men. No \n" +
"machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.\"";
quoteArray[4] = "\"If I have seen farther than other men, it is because\n" +
" I have stood on the shoulders of giants.\"" + "
" + " -- Isaac Newton";
quoteArray[5] = "\"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any \n" +
"is left, I buy food and clothes.\"" + "
" + " -- Erasmus";
quoteArray[6] = "\"The length of your education is less important than \n" +
"its breadth, and the length of your life is less \n" +
"important than its depth.\"" + "
" + " -- Marilyn vos Savant";
quoteArray[7] = "\"Your work is to discover your work and then with all \n" +
"your heart to give yourself to it.\"" + "
" + " -- Buddha";
quoteArray[8] = "\"A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be \n" +
"filled.\"" + "
" + " -- Plutarch";
quoteArray[9] = "\"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends \n" +
"on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances.\"" + "
" + " -- " +
"Martha Washington";
quoteArray[10] = "\"The world is not given to you by your parents. It is \n" +
"loaned to you by your children.\"" + "
" + " -- Kenyan proverb";
quoteArray[11] = "\"If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he \n" +
"isn't fit to live.\"" + "
" + " -- Martin Luther King, Jr.";
quoteArray[12] = "\"In a completely rational society, the best of us would\n" +
" be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for \n" +
"something less, because passing civilization along from \n" +
"one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor \n" +
"and the highest responsibility anyone could have.\"" + "
" + " -- Lee Iacocca";
quoteArray[13] = "\"What happens to you in life is not as important as " +
"your attitude toward it.\"";
quoteArray[14] = "\"The secret of success is to have more good days than " +
"bad days.\"";
quoteArray[15] = "\"The second most important job in the world, second " +
"only to being a good parent, is being a good teacher.\"" +
"
" +
"-- S.G. Ellis";
quoteArray[16] = "\"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.\"" +
"
" + "-- Peter Marshall.";
quoteArray[17] = "\"Forget committees. New, noble, world-changing ideas " +
"always come from one person working alone.\"" +
"
" +
" -- H. Jackson " +
"Brown, Life's Little Instruction Book";
quoteArray[18] = "\"The most important questions in life are, for the " +
"most part, really only problems of probability.\" -- " +
"
" +
"Pierre Simon de La Place";
quoteArray[19] = "\"I do not teach, I relate.\"" + "
" + " -- Montaigne";
quoteArray[20] = "\"The more you know, the less sure you are.\"" + "
" + " -- Voltaire";
quoteArray[21] = "\"Well done is better than well said.\"" + "
" + " -- Ben Franklin";
quoteArray[22] = "\"Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.\"" + "
" + " -- Descartes";
quoteArray[23] = "\"Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge\n" +
" than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human \n" +
"agency.\"" + "
" + " -- Descartes";
quoteArray[24] = "\"Cogito, Ergo Sum. I think, therefore I am.\"" + "
" + " -- Descartes";
quoteArray[25] = "\"The reading of all good books is like a conversation \n" +
"with the finest people of past centuries.\"" + "
" + " -- Descartes";
quoteArray[26] = "\"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life \n" +
"by what we give.\"" + "
" + " -- Winston Churchill";
quoteArray[27] = "\"Teaching high school, in addition to knowing one's \n" +
"subject matter thoroughly and being able to convey it to \n" +
"others, requires the grit of a long-distance runner, the \n" +
"stamina of a boxer going 15 rounds, the temperament of a \n" +
"juggler and the street smarts of a three-card monte \n" +
"dealer.\"" + "
" + " -- Professor Larry Cuban";
quoteArray[28] = "\"St. Augustine had good insight on the division of \n" +
"labor between God and his children when he wrote that we \n" +
"should work as if everything depended on our efforts and \n" +
"pray as if everything depended on the Almighty.\"";
quoteArray[29] = "\"If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 25 people in his \n" +
"office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and \n" +
"some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing " +
"trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without " +
"assistance, had to treat them all with professional " +
"excellence for nine months, then he might have some " +
"conception of the classroom teacher's job.\"" + "
" + " -- Colman " +
"McCarthy in The Washington Post";
quoteArray[30] = "\"Old principals never die, they just lose their faculties.\"";
quoteArray[31] = "\"How you teach is more important than what you teach.\"";
quoteArray[32] = "\"Life is too short for long division.\"";
quoteArray[33] = "\"I hear and I forget. " +
" I see and I remember. " +
" I do and I understand.\"" + "
" + " -- Chinese Proverb.";
quoteArray[34] = "\"Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer" +
" should be replaced by a computer.\"";
quoteArray[35] = "\"Old math teachers never die, they just tend to infinity.\"";
quoteArray[36] = "\"Old teachers never die; they just lose their class.\"";
quoteArray[37] = "\"Natural numbers are better for your health.\"";
quoteArray[38] = "\"Decimals have a point.\"";
quoteArray[39] = "\"Calculus has its limits.\"";
quoteArray[40] = "\"Geometry is just plane fun.\"";
quoteArray[41] = "\"Polar coordinates aren't just arctic fashions.\"";
quoteArray[42] = "\"The only time a question should be asked is when all other" +
" possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been" +
" eliminated.\"" + "
" + " -- Ben Franklin";
quoteArray[43] = "\"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than" +
" a dictionary is a piece of literature.\"" + "
" + " -- John H. Newman";
quoteArray[44] = "\"Old math teachers never die; they just pass into another sphere.\"";
quoteArray[45] = "\"Knowledge exists to be imparted.\"" + "
" + " -- Emerson";
quoteArray[46] = "\"An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it" +
" teaches young people how to make a living and doesn't" +
" teach them how to live.\"" + "
" + " -- Charles Snitow.";
quoteArray[47] = "\"Life is a ladder: Every step we take is either up or" +
" down.\"" + "
" + " -- Brewster";
quoteArray[48] = "\"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. " +
"Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.\"";
quoteArray[49] = "\"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. " +
"Teach a man to fish and you will realize why some" +
" people think golf is exciting.\"";
quoteArray[50] = "\"Small minds discuss persons. Average minds " +
"discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas." +
" Really great minds discuss mathematics.\"";
quoteArray[51] = "\"There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not" +
" someday be applied to the phenomena of the real world.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Nicolai Lobachevsky";
quoteArray[52] = "\"Logic is the anatomy of thought.\"" + "
" + " -- John Locke";
quoteArray[53] = "\"I tell them if they will occupy themselves with the study of" +
" mathematics, they will find in it the best remedy against " +
"the lusts of the flesh.\"" + "
" + " -- Thomas Mann";
quoteArray[54] = "\"The mathematical rules of the universe are visible to men in " +
"the form of beauty.\"" + "
" + " -- John Michel";
quoteArray[55] = "\"It is easier to square a circle than to get round a" +
" mathematician.\"" + "
" + " -- de Morgan";
quoteArray[56] = "\"The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with " +
"measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.\"" +
"
" +
" -- William James";
quoteArray[57] = "\"We have to reinvent the wheel every once in a while, not " +
"because we need a lot of wheels; but because we need a lot " +
"of inventors.\"" + "
" + " -- Bruce Joyce";
quoteArray[58] = "\"It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a " +
"poet in soul.\"" + "
" + " -- Sophia Kovalevskaya";
quoteArray[59] = "\"All the effects of nature are only mathematical results of a " +
"small number of immutable laws.\"" + "
" + " -- Pierre Simon de La Place"
quoteArray[60] = "\"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting " +
"without being aware that it is counting.\"" + "
" + " -- Leibniz";
quoteArray[61] = "\"The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated," +
" but to make complicated things simple.\"" + "
" + " -- S. Gudder";
quoteArray[62] = "\"I recoil with dismay and horror at this lamentable " +
"plague of functions which do not have derivatives.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Charles Hermite";
quoteArray[63] = "\"The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer " +
"as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be " +
"solver.\"" + "
" + " -- I.N. Herstein";
quoteArray[64] = "\"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly " +
"the spirit of man.\"" + "
" + " -- David Hilbert";
quoteArray[65] = "\"The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit." +
"
" +
" -- C. Jacobi";
quoteArray[66] = "\"One person's constant is another person's variable.\"" + "
" + " -- Susan Gerhart";
quoteArray[67] = "\"People who don't count won't count.\"" + "
" + " -- Anatole France";
quoteArray[68] = "\"An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds" +
" of preceding ages.\"" + "
" + " -- de Fontenelle";
quoteArray[69] = "\"Do not worry too much about your difficulties in " +
"mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[70] = "\"Mathematics is the gate and key to the sciences.\"" + "
" + " -- Roger Bacon";
quoteArray[71] = "\"Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is" +
" necessary to use logic.\"" + "
" + " -- Pierre Boatroux";
quoteArray[72] = "\"Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.\"" +
"
" +
" -- D'Alembert";
quoteArray[73] = "\"A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black" +
" cat which isn't there.\"" + "
" + " -- Charles Darwin " +
"
" +
" (quoted by Jaime Escalante in the film, STAND and DELIVER)";
quoteArray[74] = "\"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[75] = "\"Imagination is more important than knowledge.\"" + "
" + " -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[76] = "\"The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately" +
" connected with the prosperity of the state.\"" + "
" + " -- Napoleon";
quoteArray[77] = "\"The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application " +
"of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.\"" + "
" + " -- W. F. Osgood";
quoteArray[78] = "\"The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the" +
" greatest enemy of our peace of mind.\"" + "
" + " -- James Pierpont";
quoteArray[79] = "\"Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is " +
"knowledge itself.\"" + "
" + " -- Plato";
quoteArray[80] = "\"Geometry existed before creation.\"" + "
" + " -- Plato";
quoteArray[81] = "\"God ever geometrizes.\"" + "
" + " -- Plato";
quoteArray[82] = "\"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here.\" " +
"
" +
"-- inscription above Plato's Academy";
quoteArray[83] = "\"Circles to square and cubes to double would give a man " +
"excessive trouble.\"" + "
" + " -- Matthew Prior";
quoteArray[84] = "\"Wherever there is number, there is beauty.\"" + "
" + " -- Proclus";
quoteArray[85] = "\"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes," +
" but in having new eyes.\"" + "
" + " -- Marcel Proust";
quoteArray[86] = "\"There is geometry in the humming of the string.\"" + "
" + " -- Pythagoras";
quoteArray[87] = "\"What would life be without arithmetic but a scene of horrors?\"" +
"
" +
" -- Sydney Smith";
quoteArray[88] = "\"A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never " +
"be a complete mathematician.\"" + "
" + " -- Karl Weierstrass.";
quoteArray[89] = "\"Mathematics is the science of definiteness, the necessary vocabulary" +
" of those who know.\"" + "
" + " -- W. J. White";
quoteArray[90] = "\"The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Alfred North Whitehead";
quoteArray[91] = "\"Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for " +
"rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Alfred North Whitehead";
quoteArray[92] = "\"The science of Pure Mathematics, in its modern developments, " +
"may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Alfred North Whitehead";
quoteArray[93] = "\"Black holes are where God divided by zero.\"" + "
" + " -- Steven Wright";
quoteArray[94] = "\"The best teacher is not the one who knows most, but the one " +
"who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound " +
"of the obvious and wonderful ...\"" + "
" + " -- H.L. Mencken";
quoteArray[95] = "\"Math class is tough.\"" + "
" + " -- Barbie Doll (1992] ";
quoteArray[96] = "\"After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral" +
" calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as " +
"far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone " +
"beyond it in any but the most superficial way.\"" + "
" + " -- Isaac Asimov";
quoteArray[97] = "\"It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to " +
"make the students think.\"" + "
" + " -- John Wesley Young";
quoteArray[98] = "\"Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other " +
"people learn from explanations.\"" + "
" + " -- Ralph Boas";
quoteArray[99] = "\"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study " +
"mathematics and philosophy.\"" + "
" + " -- John Adams";
quoteArray[100] = "\"Mathematics is not a spectator sport!\"" + "
" + " -- Karl J. Smith";
quoteArray[101] = "\"He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Plato";
quoteArray[102] = "\"The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Leopold Kronecker";
quoteArray[103] = "\"Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology " +
"makes them sinful.\"" + "
" + " -- Martin Luther";
quoteArray[104] = "\"There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter " +
"than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else " +
"-- but persistent.\"" + "
" + " -- Raoul Bott";
quoteArray[105] = "\"Mathematics is the life of the gods.\"" + "
" + " -- Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)";
quoteArray[106] = "\"He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the " +
"diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.\"" + "
" + " -- Plato";
quoteArray[107] = "\"Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious " +
"way.\"" + "
" + " -- George Polya";
quoteArray[108] = "\"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into " +
"their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe";
quoteArray[109] = "\"How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the " +
"standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does " +
"not deserve.\"" + "
" + " -- W.H. Auden";
quoteArray[110] = "\"Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.\"" + "
" + " -- E.T. Bell";
quoteArray[111] = "\"Mathematics is written for mathematicians.\"" + "
" + " -- Copernicus";
quoteArray[112] = "\"I was x years old in the year x2\"" + "
" + " -- Augustus De Morgan" +
" (when asked about his age)";
quoteArray[113] = "\"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve " +
"other problems.\"" + "
" + " -- Rene Descartes";
quoteArray[114] = "\"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Descartes";
quoteArray[115] = "\"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Benjamin Disraeli";
quoteArray[116] = "\"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual" +
" who can labor in freedom.\"" + "
" + " -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[117] = "\"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[118] = "\"The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Havelock Ellis";
quoteArray[119] = "\"Whenever you can, count.\"" + "
" + " -- Sir Francis Galton";
quoteArray[120] = "\"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with " +
"meaningless marks on paper.\"" + "
" + " -- David Hilbert";
quoteArray[121] = "\"I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific " +
"names of beings animalculous; in short, in matters vegetable, animal, and " +
"mineral, I am the very model of the modern Major General.\"" + "
" + " -- W.S. Gilbert " +
"in the Pirates of Penzance";
quoteArray[122] = "\"Mathematics is the science of what is clear by itself.\"" + "
" + " -- Carl Jacobi";
quoteArray[123] = "\"Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in " +
"mathematics.\"" + "
" + " -- Kasner and Newman";
quoteArray[124] = "\"No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be " +
"demonstrated mathematically.\"" + "
" + " -- Leonardo da Vinci";
quoteArray[125] = "\"Who has not been amazed to learn that the function " +
"y = ex, like a " +
"phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?\"" + "
" + " -- " +
"Francois le Lionnais";
quoteArray[126] = "\"All great therorems were discovered after midnight.\"" + "
" + " -- Adrian Mathesis";
quoteArray[127] = "\"In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Johann von Neumann";
quoteArray[128] = "\"Life is good for only two things: discovering mathematics and teaching " +
"mathematics.\"" + "
" + " -- Simeon Poisson";
quoteArray[129] = "\"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose " +
"denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the " +
"smaller the fraction.\"" + "
" + " -- Tolstoy";
quoteArray[130] = "\"I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. " +
"I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves " +
"no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Malcolm X";
quoteArray[131] = "\"Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.\" " +
"
" +
" -- John Allen Paulos";
quoteArray[132] = "\"There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are " +
"more or less solved.\"" + "
" + " -- Henri Poincare";
quoteArray[133] = "\"The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is " +
"useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights " +
"in it because it is beautiful.\"" + "
" + " -- Henri Poincare";
quoteArray[134] = "\"Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.\"" +
"
" +
" -- George Polya";
quoteArray[135] = "\"Teaching is the royal road to learning.\" " + "
" + " -- Jassamyn West";
quoteArray[136] = "\"We only think when confronted with a problem.\"" + "
" + " -- John Dewey";
quoteArray[137] = "\"The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable " +
"curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he " +
"is studying.\" " + "
" + " -- Jean Dieudonne";
quoteArray[138] = "\"One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Alexandre Dumas";
quoteArray[139] = "\"Geometry is the foundation of all painting.\"" + "
" + " -- Albrecht Durer";
quoteArray[140] = "\"The arithmetic of life does not always have a logical answer.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Inshirah Abdur-Rauf";
quoteArray[141] = "\"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Henry Brooks Adams";
quoteArray[142] = "\"I am not a teacher, I am an awakener.\" " + "
" + " -- Robert Frost";
quoteArray[143] = "\"It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in " +
"particular, to expose their students to problems much more than " +
"to facts.\"" + "
" + " -- Paul Halmos";
quoteArray[144] = "\"Mathematics should be fun.\"" + "
" + " -- Peter J. Hilton";
quoteArray[145] = "\"I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Ice-T";
quoteArray[146] = "\"There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of " +
"all formulas -- developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre:" +
"
" +
" e(i * pi) + 1 = 0... It appeals equally" +
" to the mystic, the scientist, the philosopher, the mathematician.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Edward Kasner and James Newman";
quoteArray[147] = "\"God exists since mathematics is consistent and the devil exists " +
"since we cannot prove the consistency.\"" + "
" + " -- Morris Kline";
quoteArray[148] = "\"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a " +
"computer. Art is everything else we do.\"" + "
" + " -- Donald Knuth";
quoteArray[149] = "\"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.\"" +
"
" +
"-- Horace Mann";
quoteArray[150] = "\"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve " +
"me, and I'll understand.\"" + "
" + " -- Native American saying";
quoteArray[151] = "\"Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Paul Brodeur";
quoteArray[152] = "\"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been " +
"forgotten.\"" + "
" + " -- B. F. Skinner";
quoteArray[153] = "\"Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by " +
"the wit of man.\"" + "
" + " -- W. B. Smith";
quoteArray[154] = "\"Nature's great book is written in mathematics.\"" + "
" + " -- Galileo";
quoteArray[155] = "\"Numbers constitute the only universal language.\"" + "
" + " -- Nathanael West";
quoteArray[156] = "\"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a " +
"computer.\"";
quoteArray[157] = "\"The essence of mathematics is in its freedom.\"" + "
" + " -- Georg Cantor";
quoteArray[158] = "\"Mathematics, in one view, is the science of infinity.\" " +
"
" +
"-- P. Davis and R. Hersh";
quoteArray[159] = "\"From the very beginning of his education, the child should " +
"experience the joy of discovery.\"" + "
" + " -- Alfred North Whitehead";
quoteArray[160] = "\"Mathematics -- this may surprise or shock some -- is never " +
"deductive in creation.\" " + "
" + " -- Paul Halmos";
quoteArray[161] = "\"Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic " +
"then sanctions the conquests of intuition.\"" + "
" + " -- Morris Kline";
quoteArray[162] = "\"I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however " +
"the margin is not large enough to contain.\"" + "
" + " -- Pierre de Fermat, " +
"refering to the result known as Fermat's Last Theorem";
quoteArray[163] = "\"How can it be that mathematics, a product of human thought " +
"independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects " +
"of reality?\"" + "
" + " -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[164] = "\"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Walt Disney";
quoteArray[165] = "\"The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but " +
"imagination.\"" + "
" + " -- Augustus de Morgan";
quoteArray[166] = "\"Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not " +
"understand it myself any more.\"" + "
" + " -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[167] = "\"Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Paul Erdos";
quoteArray[168] = "\"We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my "+
"students, you do not enter the future -- you create the future. The future is " +
"created through hard work.\"" + "
" + " -- Jaime Escalante";
quoteArray[169] = "\"I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine -- mathematicians now use my " +
"prints to illustrate their books.\"" + "
" + " -- M.C. Escher";
quoteArray[170] = "\"Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.\"" + "
" + " -- Euripides";
quoteArray[171] = "\"Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named " +
"All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.\"" + "
" + " -- Patrick Ewing";
quoteArray[172] = "\"The calculus is one of the greatest edifices constructed by mankind.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Cambridge Conference on School Mathematics";
quoteArray[173] = "\"Statistics are no substitute for judgment.\"" + "
" + " -- Henry Clay";
quoteArray[174] = "\"Alcohol and Calculus Don't Mix; Never Drink and Derive.\"";
quoteArray[175] = "\"You don't have to teach people to be human. You need to teach them " +
"how to stop being inhuman.\"" + "
" + " -- Eldridge Cleaver";
quoteArray[176] = "\"By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will " +
"have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum " +
"wage for the entire year.\"" + "
" + " -- Bill Clinton";
quoteArray[177] = "\"The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a " +
"research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus, and everything in " +
"between, falls under this rubric. Happy is the person who comes to " +
"understand something and then gets to explain it.\"" + "
" + " -- Marshall Cohen";
quoteArray[178] = "\"All mathematicians share ... a sense of amazement over the infinite " +
"depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Martin Gardner";
quoteArray[179] = "\"Mathematical knowledge adds vigour to the mind, frees it from " +
"prejudice, credulity, and superstition.\"" + "
" + " -- John Arbuthnot";
quoteArray[180] = "\"The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, " +
"and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Aristotle";
quoteArray[181] = "\"My philosophy of learning, like my blood type, is \"be positive.\" " +
"Keeping student attitudes positive is vital to their success in learning.\"" +
"
" +
" -- David Pleacher";
quoteArray[182] = "\"Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary " +
"manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Hermann Weyl";
quoteArray[183] = "\"A diagram is worth a thousand proofs.\"" + "
" + " -- Dr. Carl E. Linderholm";
quoteArray[184] = "\"Where the pessimist sees a half-closed interval, the optimist sees" +
" a half-open interval.\"";
quoteArray[185] = "\"Discovery lessons, students writing to learn mathematics, the " +
"teaching of so-called general problem solving concepts, field " +
"trips, math lab lessons, alternate assessments, collaborative " +
"partner tests, student presentations, and open-ended problems " +
"should all be used sparingly. I use some of them, but they have " +
"limited value. Pencil-and-paper analytic solutions are the heart " +
"of mathematics education.\" " +
"
" +
"--Michael Stueben in Twenty Years Before the Blackboard";
quoteArray[186] = "\"There are 10 types of people in the world -- Those who understand" +
" binary, and those who don't.\""
quoteArray[187] = "\"Character is what you are when no one is watching.\"";
quoteArray[188] = "\"Morality, like art, consists in drawing a line somewhere.\"";
quoteArray[189] = "\"The heart of education is education of the heart.\"";
quoteArray[190] = "\"Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a " +
"living rather than how to make a life.\"" + "
" + " -- Mary Hatwood Futrell";
quoteArray[191] = "\"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.\"" + "
" + " -- Mark Twain";
quoteArray[192] = "\"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Charles Swindoll";
quoteArray[193] = "\"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Frank A. Clark";
quoteArray[194] = "\"Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your" +
" shoes.\"" + "
" + " -- Mickey Mouse";
quoteArray[195] = "\"Although I am absolutely without training or knowledge in the exact sciences," +
" I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow" +
" artists.\"" + "
" + " -- M.C. Escher";
quoteArray[196] = "\"The only angle from which to approach a problem is the TRY-Angle.\"";
quoteArray[197] = "\"Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience" +
" is what you get from not reading it!\"";
quoteArray[198] = "\"Newton's First Law: Somedays it's better to stay in bed.\"";
quoteArray[199] = "\"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Malcolm S. Forbes";
quoteArray[200] = "\"The shortest distance between two points is under construction.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Bill Sanderson";
quoteArray[201] = "\"He who laughs, lasts.\"" + "
" + " -- Mary Pettibone Poole";
quoteArray[202] = "\"Positive attitudes bring positive results. Negative attitudes bring" +
" negative results.\"";
quoteArray[203] = "\"Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.\"" +
"
" +
" -- George Polya"
quoteArray[204] = "\"If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is" +
" an easier problem you can't solve: find it.\"" +
"
" +
" -- George Polya"
quoteArray[205] = "\"A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is " +
"a grain of discovery in any problem.\"" + "
" + " -- George Polya"
quoteArray[206] = "\"The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. " +
"The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get " +
"a bright idea.\"" + "
" + " -- George Polya"
quoteArray[207] = "\"There are many questions which fools can ask that wise " +
"men cannot answer.\"" + "
" + " -- George Polya"
quoteArray[208] = "\"I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for" +
" physics. Mathematics is in between.\"" + "
" + " -- George Polya"
quoteArray[209] = "\"God wrote the universe in the language of mathematics.\"" + "
" + " -- Galileo";
quoteArray[210] = "\"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only" +
" because they do not realize how complicated life is.\"";
quoteArray[211] = "\"Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Louis Pasteur";
quoteArray[212] = "\"New facts often trigger new ideas.\"" + "
" + " -- Osborn";
quoteArray[213] = "\"What is now proved was once only imagined.\"" + "
" + " -- Proverb.";
quoteArray[214] = "\"Men who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are " +
"doing it.\"";
quoteArray[215] = "\"If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don’t go " +
"fishing, you’ll never catch any fish.\"" + "
" + " -- Alex F. Osborn";
quoteArray[216] = "\"Some people study all their life, and at their death have learned " +
"everything but to think.\"" + "
" + " -- Demergue";
quoteArray[217] = "\"The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.\"" + "
" + " -- Harold MacMillan";
quoteArray[218] = "\"A problem well stated is half-solved.\"" + "
" + " -- John Dewey";
quoteArray[219] = "\"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Linus Pauling";
quoteArray[220] = "\"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten" +
" but they may start a winning game.\"" + "
" + " -- Goethe";
quoteArray[221] = "\"Questions are creative acts of intelligence.\"" + "
" + " -- Frank Kingdon";
quoteArray[222] = "\"A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.\"" +
"
" +
" -- George Bernard Shaw";
quoteArray[223] = "\"Nothing was ever achieved without enthusiasm.\"" + "
" + " -- Emerson";
quoteArray[224] = "\"Our minds are finite, and even in these circumstances of finitude we are " +
"surrounded by possibilities that are infinite; and the purpose of human " +
"life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.\" " +
"
" +
" -- Alfred North Whitehead";
quoteArray[225] = "\"From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great" +
" Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.\"" +
"
" +
" -- James Hopwood Jeans";
quoteArray[226] = "\"It is truth very certain that, when it is not in one's power to determine " +
"what is true, we ought to follow what is more probable.\" " +
"
" +
" -- Rene Descartes";
quoteArray[227] = "\"Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we " +
"are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.\" " +
"
" +
" -- Bertrand Russell";
quoteArray[228] = "\"But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what " +
"you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.\" " +
"
" +
" -- Tom Lehrer";
quoteArray[229] = "\"But don't panic. Base 8 is just like Base 10 really." +
" If you're missing two fingers.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Tom Lehrer";
quoteArray[230] = "\"Sufficient unto the day is the rigor thereof.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Eliakim H. Moore";
quoteArray[231] = "\"Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.\" " +
"
" +
"- - Morris Kline";
quoteArray[232] = "\"Mathematics is on the artistic side a creation of new rhythms, orders, " +
"designs, harmonies, and on the knowledge side, is a systematic study of " +
"various rhythms, orders, designs, and harmonies.\"" +
"
" +
" -- William L. Schaaf";
quoteArray[233] = "\"Mathematics -- the subtle fine art.\" " +
"
" +
" -- Jamie Byrnie Shaw";
quoteArray[234] = "\"The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or poet's, must be " +
"beautiful. The ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together " +
"in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: There is no permanent place " +
"in the world for ugly mathematics.\"" + "
" + " -- G. H. Hardy";
quoteArray[235] = "\"Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Edward Kasner and James R. Newman";
quoteArray[236] = "\"Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not " +
"detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of " +
"life.\"" + "
" + " -- Cassius Jackson Keyser";
quoteArray[237] = "\"The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction." +
" Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human " +
"inquiry can be a science unless it pursues its path through " +
"mathematical exposition and demonstration.\"" + "
" + " -- Leonardo Da Vinci";
quoteArray[238] = "\"Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the " +
"test first, and the lesson afterward.\"";
quoteArray[239] = "\"Not everything that counts can be counted. " +
"Not everything that can be counted counts.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Albert Einstein ";
quoteArray[240] = "\"I had been to school ... and could say the multiplication table " +
"up to 6 x 7 = 35, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than " +
"that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics anyway.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Huckleberry Finn (by Mark Twain)";
quoteArray[241] = "\"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. " +
"But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round " +
"numbers.\"" + "
" + " -- Scott Adams ";
quoteArray[242] = "\"42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.\"" + "
" + " -- Steven Wright";
quoteArray[243] = "\"Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.\"" + "
" + " -- Steven Wright";
quoteArray[244] = "\"Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of" +
" the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for" +
" five.\"" + "
" + " -- James McNeill Whistler";
quoteArray[245] = "\"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can " +
"never be fully learnt.\"" + "
" + " -- Izaak Walton";
quoteArray[246] = "\"Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Benjamin Pierce";
quoteArray[247] = "\"Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by " +
"means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Leonardo da Vinci";
quoteArray[248] = "\"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme " +
"beauty.\"" + "
" + " -- Bertrand Russell";
quoteArray[249] = "\"Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the " +
"region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, " +
"but every possible world, must conform.\"" + "
" + " -- Bertrand Russell";
quoteArray[250] = "\"The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and" +
" the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are " +
"embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson";
quoteArray[251] = "\"Numerical precision is the very soul of science.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson";
quoteArray[252] = "\"All the mathematical sciences are founded on the relations between " +
"physical laws and laws of numbers.\"" + "
" + " -- James Clerk Maxwell";
quoteArray[253] = "\"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of " +
"reasoning.\"" + "
" + " -- Plato";
quoteArray[254] = "\"Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics, subtile; " +
"natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to " +
"contend.\"" + "
" + " -- Francis Bacon";
quoteArray[255] = "\"A few honest men are better than numbers.\"" + "
" + " -- Oliver Cromwell";
quoteArray[256] = "\"Q.E.D. (Quod Erat Demonstrandum: Which was to be proven.)\"" +
"
" +
" -- Euclid";
quoteArray[257] = "\"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. " +
"Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Thomas Robert Malthus";
quoteArray[258] = "\"The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense " +
"reduced to calculus.\"" + "
" + " -- Pierre de La Place";
quoteArray[259] = "\"Now don't be sad, 'cause two out of three ain't bad.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Meatloaf";
quoteArray[260] = "\"Statistics means never having to say you're certain.\"";
quoteArray[261] = "\"Without geometry life is pointless.\"";
quoteArray[262] = "\"The work of a teacher -- exhausting, complex, idiosyncratic, " +
"never twice the same -- is at its heart, an intellectual and " +
"ethical enterprise. Teaching is the vocation of vocations...\"" +
"
" +
" -- William Ayres"
quoteArray[263] = "\"Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for " +
" ugly mathematics.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Godfrey Harold Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology (1940)";
quoteArray[264] = "\"We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques " +
" only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who " +
"care about what they teach, and who can communicate with kids.\"" +
"
" +
"-- Parker I. Palmer, The Courage to Teach";
quoteArray[265] = "\"Physicists defer only to mathematicians, and mathematicians defer" +
" only to God.\"";
quoteArray[266] = "\"Biologists think they are biochemists, " +
"Biochemists think they are Physical Chemists, " +
"Physical Chemists think they are Physicists, " +
"Physicists think they are Gods, " +
"And God thinks he is a Mathematician.\"";
quoteArray[267] = "\"Old math teachers never die -- they just lose their functions.\"";
quoteArray[268] = "\"Ganas is all you need.\"" +
"
" +
"[Ganas is Spanish for passion, guts, " +
"determination, desire]" + "
" + " -- Jaime Escalante ";
quoteArray[269] = "\"I do not believe in the gifted. " +
"If [the students] have ganas [Spanish for desire], " +
"I can make them do it.\"" + "
" + " -- Jaime Escalante";
quoteArray[270] = "\"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Thomas Alva Edison ";
quoteArray[271] = "\"To teach is to learn.\"";
quoteArray[272] = "\"To learn, you must want to be taught.\"" + "
" + " -- Proverbs 12:1";
quoteArray[273] = "\"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Henry Ford ";
quoteArray[274] = "\"To infinity and beyond.\"" + "
" + " -- Buzz Lightyear";
quoteArray[275] = "\"I think, therefore I laugh.\"" + "
" + " -- John Allen Poulos";
quoteArray[276] = "\"I do not think -- therefore I am not.\"";
quoteArray[277] = "\"Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. " +
"Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.\"";
quoteArray[278] = "\"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all
those " +
"who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists
that " +
"mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to
darken the " +
"spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.\"" + "
" + " -- St. Augustine"
+ "
" + "Here is the Latin:
"+
"Quapropter bono christiano, sive mathematici, sive quilibet impie divinantium,
maxime dicentes vera,"
+ " cavendi sunt, ne consortio daemoniorum irretiant." + "
" +
"Modern translations read Astrologers or Numerologists and not Mathematicians.";
quoteArray[279] = "\"The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.\"";
quoteArray[280] = "\"With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is" +
" sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, " +
"the calculus is the product of a long evolution that was neither " +
"initiated nor terminated by Newton and Leibniz, but in which both played" +
" a decisive part.\"" + "
" + " -- Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins ";
quoteArray[281] = "\"The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different " +
"form when developed for the complex numbers.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Keith Devlin";
quoteArray[282] = "\"It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a " +
"mathematical science ... simply because it deals with quantities... " +
" As the complete theory of almost every other science involves the use " +
"of calculus, so we cannot have a true theory of Economics without its aid." +
"\"" + "
" + " -- W. S. Jevons ";
quoteArray[283] = "\"The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important " +
"or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that " +
" are of major significance.\"" + "
" + " -- E. Purcell and D. Varberg ";
quoteArray[284] = "\"But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a " +
"given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given " +
"differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the " +
"integral of a given quantity can be found or not.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Johann Bernoulli ";
quoteArray[285] = "\"You live your life between your ears.\"" + "
" + " -- Bebe Moore Campbell ";
quoteArray[286] = "\"'What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and " +
"one and one?' 'I don't know,' said Alice. 'I lost count.'" +
" 'She can't do addition,' said the Red Queen.\"" + "
" + " -- Lewis Carroll";
quoteArray[287] = "\"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.\"" +
"
" +
" -- George Washington Carver ";
quoteArray[288] = "\"Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.\"" + "
" + " -- Norman Cousins ";
quoteArray[289] = "\"Education is learning more than it is being taught. It's the chemistry " +
"of curiosity exposed to information. In that sense all of life is " +
"potentially school. And even I can pass that.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Bob Guiccione, Jr.";
quoteArray[290] = "\"The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the" +
" most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius " +
"and artistic genius touch one another.\"" + "
" + " -- Gosta Mittag-Leffler ";
quoteArray[291] = "\"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. " +
"Capitol building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?\"" +
"
" +
" -- John A. Paulos ";
quoteArray[292] = "\"[Paradoxes of the infinite arise] only when we attempt, with our finite minds," +
" to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the " +
"finite and limited;\"" + "
" + " -- Galileo Galilei ";
quoteArray[293] = "\"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Galileo Galilei ";
quoteArray[294] = "\"The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Alfred North Whitehead";
quoteArray[295] = "\"Bees ... by virtue of a certain geometrical forethought ... know that the hexagon " +
"is greater than the square and the triangle, and will hold more honey for the " +
"same expenditure of material.\"" + "
" + " -- Pappas ";
quoteArray[296] = "\"The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns " +
"which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics...\"" +
"
" +
" -- Galilei Galileo ";
quoteArray[297] = "\"I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] " +
"will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it " +
"is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems " +
"which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or " +
"yet unborn.\"" + "
" + " -- Archimedes";
quoteArray[298] = "\"Education is indoctrination if you're white; subjugation if you're black.\"" +
"
" +
" -- James Baldwin ";
quoteArray[299] = "\"The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at " +
"the world for himself, to make his own decisions.\"" +
"
" +
" -- James Baldwin ";
quoteArray[300] = "\"No set of principles can guarantee a recipe for good practice (in teaching).\"" +
"
" +
" -- D. Ball and T. Schroeder";
quoteArray[301] = "\"All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Thomas Banchoff (in introduction to Flatland)";
quoteArray[302] = "\"The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it " +
"became the modern world.\"" + "
" + " -- David Berlinski";
quoteArray[303] = "\"The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and " +
"is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period " +
"in which hundreds of gleaming cogs are made to celebrate not only the " +
"time and date but the phases of the moon.\"" +
"
" +
" -- David Berlinski";
quoteArray[304] = "\"Everything tries to be round.\"" + "
" + " -- Black Elk";
quoteArray[305] = "\"Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, " +
"'You make mathematics seem like fun.' I was inspired to reply, " +
"'If it isn't fun, why do it?'\"" + "
" + " -- Ralph P. Boas ";
quoteArray[306] = "\"Major paradoxes provide food for logical thought for decades and " +
"sometimes centuries.\"" + "
" + " -- Nicholas Bourbaki ";
quoteArray[307] = "\"Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very " +
"Spirit of Life itself.\"" + "
" + " -- Claude Bragdon ";
quoteArray[308] = "\"The schools are a great theater in which we play out the conflicts " +
"in the culture.\"" + "
" + "-- David Cohen and Barbara Neufeld ";
quoteArray[309] = "\"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without " +
"learning is perilous.\"" + "
" + " -- Confucius ";
quoteArray[310] = "\"Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme" +
" values -- maxima and minima -- has become one of the systematic " +
"integrating principles of science.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins ";
quoteArray[311] = "\"Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there " +
"is no other guidance we can have.\"" + "
" + " -- Charles Darwin ";
quoteArray[312] = "\"One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its " +
"thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.\"" +
"
" +
" -- P.J. Davis";
quoteArray[313] = "\"Common integration is only the memory of differentiation...\"" +
"
" +
" -- A. De Morgan";
quoteArray[314] = "\"I see it, but I don't believe it.\" [On Cantor's proof that the points " +
"in the unit interval were in one-to-one correspondence with points in " +
"the unit square.]" + "
" + " -- Richard Dedekind ";
quoteArray[315] = "\"Numbers are the free creation of the human mind.\"" + "
" + " -- Richard Dedekind ";
quoteArray[316] = "\"The linear-programming was -- and is -- perhaps the single most " +
"important real-life problem.\"" + "
" + " -- Keith Devlin ";
quoteArray[317] = "\"There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is " +
"not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Keith Devlin ";
quoteArray[318] = "\"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much " +
"from his failures as from his successes.\"" + "
" + " -- John Dewey ";
quoteArray[319] = "\"Education is not a preparation for life, education is life itself.\"" +
"
" +
" -- John Dewey";
quoteArray[320] = "\"One of the most important concepts in all of mathematics is that " +
"of function.\"" + "
" + " -- T.P. Dick and C.M. Patton ";
quoteArray[321] = "\"The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, " +
"a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Jean Dieudonne ";
quoteArray[322] = "\"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ. They showed me a " +
"picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me, 'which one is " +
"different and does not belong?' They taught me different was wrong.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Ani DiFranco ";
quoteArray[323] = "\"you got to look outside-- your eyes-- you got to think outside-- your brain--" +
" you got to walk outside-- your life-- to where the neighborhoods change.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Ani DiFranco";
quoteArray[324] = "\"A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work," +
" must essentially be mathematical.\"" + "
" + " -- P.A.M. Dirac";
quoteArray[325] = "\"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.\"" + "
" + " -- Mike Ditka ";
quoteArray[326] = "\"If there's no struggle, there's no progress.\"" + "
" + " -- Frederick Douglass";
quoteArray[327] = "\"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible," +
" whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?\"" +
"
" +
" -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle";
quoteArray[328] = "\"Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life.\"" +
"
" +
" -- W.E.B. DuBois ";
quoteArray[329] = "\"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid?" +
" It must be education that does it.\"" + "
" + " -- Alexandre Dumas ";
quoteArray[330] = "\"One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns " +
"of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the " +
"mathematical imagination.\"" + "
" + " -- Freeman Dyson ";
quoteArray[331] = "\"Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Sir Arthur Eddington ";
quoteArray[332] = "\"There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something!\"" +
"
" +
" -- Thomas Edison ";
quoteArray[333] = "\"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. " +
"It is the source of all true art and science.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[334] = "\"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative " +
"expression and knowledge.\"" + "
" + " -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[335] = "\"The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, " +
"a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory " +
"experiences.\"" + "
" + " -- Albert Einstein ";
quoteArray[336] = "\"I have no particular talent. I am only inquisitive.\"" + "
" + " -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[337] = "\"In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton’s laws " +
"of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; " +
"everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate " +
"mathematics methods by means of deduction.\"" + "
" + " -- Albert Einstein ";
quoteArray[338] = "\"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical " +
"facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Albert Einstein ";
quoteArray[339] = "\"The value of an education ... is not the learning of many facts but the " +
"training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Albert Einstein ";
quoteArray[340] = "\"Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the " +
"triumph of some enthusiasm.\"" + "
" + " -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ";
quoteArray[341] = "\"It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the " +
"primes.\"" + "
" + " -- Paul Erdos";
quoteArray[342] = "\"Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of " +
"the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be " +
"made across the boderline between the two respective domains.\"" +
"
" +
" -- M.C. Escher ";
quoteArray[343] = "\"Father [M.C. Escher] had difficulty comprehending that the working of " +
"his mind was akin to that of a mathematician. He greatly enjoyed the " +
"interest in his work by mathematicians and scientists, ...\"" +
"
" +
" -- George Escher ";
quoteArray[344] = "\"For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of " +
"a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in " +
"which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Leonhard Euler";
quoteArray[345] = "\"After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, " +
"should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are " +
"involved in the exponential.\"" + "
" + " -- Leonhard Euler";
quoteArray[346] = "\"Mathematics serves as a handmaiden for the explanation of the " +
"quantitative situations in other subjects, such as economics, physics, " +
"navigation, finance, biology and even the arts.\"" + "
" + " -- H. F. Fehr ";
quoteArray[347] = "\"On the other hand, it is impossible for a cube to be written as a sum " +
"of two cubes or a fourth power to be written as a sum of two fourth " +
"powers or, in general for any number which is a power greater than the " +
"second to be written as a sum of two like powers. For this I have " +
"discovered a truly wonderful proof, but the margin is too small to " +
"contain it.\"" + "
" + " -- P. Fermat ";
quoteArray[348] = "\"The journey for an education starts with a childhood question." +
"\"" + "
" + " -- David L. Finn ";
quoteArray[349] = "\"Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the " +
"secret analogies that unite them.\"" + "
" + " -- Joseph Fourier ";
quoteArray[350] = "\"The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical" +
" discoveries.\"" + "
" + " -- Jean-Baptist-Joseph Fourier";
quoteArray[351] = "\"What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful " +
"for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of " +
"mathematics?\"" + "
" + " -- Benjamin Franklin";
quoteArray[352] = "\"A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians." +
" Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?\"" +
"
" +
" -- Martin Gardner ";
quoteArray[353] = "\"One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more " +
"fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater " +
"depths of mystery--and more totally useless--than the perfect numbers.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Martin Gardner";
quoteArray[354] = "\"The most important outcome of education is to help students to become" +
" independent of formal education.\"" + "
" + " -- Paul E. Gray ";
quoteArray[355] = "\"The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is " +
"the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ...\"" +
"
" +
" -- Paul Halmos";
quoteArray[356] = "\"A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for " +
"a thorough understanding of any concept, and when I want to learn " +
"something new, I make it my first job to build one.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Paul Halmos";
quoteArray[357] = "\"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers!\"" + "
" + " -- R. W. Hamming ";
quoteArray[358] = "\"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. " +
"If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they " +
"are made with ideas.\"" + "
" + " -- G. H. Hardy ";
quoteArray[359] = "\"In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and " +
"what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each " +
"generation adds a new story to the old structure.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Herman Henkel ";
quoteArray[360] = "\"The struggle to become a better teacher begins all over again with " +
"the advent of each new class.\"" + "
" + " -- Martin Henley";
quoteArray[361] = "\"Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should " +
"have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that " +
"much time to squander on a probable failure.\"" + "
" + " -- David Hilbert";
quoteArray[362] = "\"The discoveries of Newton have done more for England and for the race, " +
"than has been done by whole dynasties of British monarchs.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Thomas Hill";
quoteArray[363] = "\"The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Edward Kasner and James Newman";
quoteArray[364] = "\"Where there is matter, there is geometry.\"" + "
" + " -- Johannes Kepler ";
quoteArray[365] = "\"The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.\"" +
"
" +
" -- John F. Kennedy ";
quoteArray[366] = "\"...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to " +
"surpass him.\"" + "
" + " -- John Kemeny";
quoteArray[367] = "\"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to " +
"think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true " +
"education.\"" + "
" + " -- Martin Luther King, jr.";
quoteArray[368] = "\"Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential " +
"equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all " +
"those elementary manifestations of nature which involve time.\"" + "
" + " -- Sophus Lie";
quoteArray[369] = "\"The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Benoit Mandelbrot";
quoteArray[370] = "\"The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil to learn is " +
"hammering on cold iron.\"" + "
" + " -- Horace Mann ";
quoteArray[371] = "\"God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent " +
"finite sets.\"" + "
" + " -- Gian Carlo Rota ";
quoteArray[372] = "\"We cannot hope that many children will learn mathematics unless we find a way " +
"to share our enjoyment and show them its beauty as well as its utility.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Mary Beth Ruskai";
quoteArray[373] = "\"Three passions ... have governed my life: the longing for love, the search " +
"for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Bertrand Russell";
quoteArray[374] = "\"Zeno was concerned with three problems...These are the problem of the " +
"infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.\"" + "
" + " -- Bertrand Russell";
quoteArray[375] = "\"You get what you settle for.\"" + "
" + " -- Louise Sawyer, " +
"from the movie Thelma and Louise";
quoteArray[376] = "\"Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 " +
"elephants drink?\"" + "
" + " -- Dr. Seuss";
quoteArray[377] = "\"If you hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an " +
"object lesson and not as an example.\"" + "
" + " -- George Bernard Shaw";
quoteArray[378] = "\"One can invent mathematics without knowing much of its history. " +
"One can use mathematics without knowing much, if any, of its history. " +
"But one cannot have a mature appreciation of mathematics without a " +
"substantial knowledge of its history.\"" + "
" + " -- Abe Shenitzer";
quoteArray[379] = "\"Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on " +
"formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow " +
"at a rapid rate...the guide to this growth is not calculation and formulas, " +
"but an open ended search for pattern.\"" + "
" + " -- Lynn A. Steen";
quoteArray[380] = "\"What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns...\"" +
"
" +
" -- Lynn A. Steen";
quoteArray[381] = "\"There is a difference between not knowing and not knowing yet.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Shelia Tobias";
quoteArray[382] = "\"Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the " +
"discovery of truth, but in the search for it.\"" + "
" + " -- Tolstoy";
quoteArray[383] = "\"Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Mark Twain";
quoteArray[384] = "\"Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.\"" +
"
" +
" -- John A. Van de Walle";
quoteArray[385] = "\"There is an astonishing imagination even in the science of mathematics..." +
" We repeat, there is far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than " +
"in that of Homer.\"" + "
" + " -- Francios Voltaire";
quoteArray[386] = "\"Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.\"" +
"
" +
" -- John von Neumann";
quoteArray[387] = "\"Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you define its meaning, is one idea by " +
"which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, " +
"beauty and perfection.\"" + "
" + " -- Hermann Weyl";
quoteArray[388] = "\"I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want" +
" someone who made it interesting.\"" + "
" + " -- Edith Wharton";
quoteArray[389] = "\"If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, " +
"I do mathematics to keep happy.\"" + "
" + " -- Alfréd Rényi";
quoteArray[390] = "\"A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.\"" +
"
" +
" -- A. S. Besicovitch";
quoteArray[391] = "\"Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.\"" + "
" + " -- Morris Kline";
quoteArray[392] = "\"Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.\"" + "
" + " -- Gustave Flaubert";
quoteArray[393] = "\"God is a child; and when he began to play, he cultivated mathematics. " +
"It is the most godly of man's games.\"" + "
" + " -- V. Erath";
quoteArray[394] = "\"There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one " +
"of them.\"" + "
" + " -- Plato";
quoteArray[395] = "\"Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too " +
"difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.\"" + "
" + " -- Plato";
quoteArray[396] = "\"In the fall of 1972 President Nixon announced that the rate of increase " +
"of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president " +
"used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection.\"" + "
" + " -- Hugo Rossi";
quoteArray[397] = "\"Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Aleksandr Pushkin";
quoteArray[398] = "\"With me everything turns into mathematics.\"" + "
" + " -- Descartes";
quoteArray[399] = "\"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, " +
"but that men will begin to think like computers.\"" + "
" + " -- Sydney J. Harris";
quoteArray[400] = "\"God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the dice where " +
"they cannot be seen.\"" + "
" + " -- Stephen Hawking";
quoteArray[401] = "\"One should always generalize.\"" + "
" + " -- Carl Jacobi";
quoteArray[402] = "\"The greatest unsolved theorem in mathematics is why some people are " +
"better at it than others.\"" + "
" + " -- Adrian Mathesis";
quoteArray[403] = "\"Logic doesn't apply to the real world.\"" + "
" + " -- Marvin Lee Minsky";
quoteArray[404] = "\"You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Max Rosenlicht";
quoteArray[405] = "\"Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require " +
"the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely " +
"little might be.\"" + "
" + " -- Bertrand Russell";
quoteArray[406] = "\"If you would make a man happy, do not add to his possessions but subtract " +
"from the sum of his desires.\"" + "
" + " -- Seneca";
quoteArray[407] = "\"We think in generalities, but we live in details.\"" + "
" + "-- Alfred North Whitehead";
quoteArray[408] = "\"Learning to solve problems is the principal reason for studying " +
"mathematics.\"" + "
" + " -- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics";
quoteArray[409] = "\"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high " +
"expectation.\"" + "
" + " -- Jack Kinder";
quoteArray[410] = "\"To state a theorem and then to show examples of it is literally to " +
"teach backwards.\"" + "
" + " -- E. Kim Nebeuts";
quoteArray[411] = "\"Man can not discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose " +
"sight of the shore.\"" + "
" + " -- Andre Gide";
quoteArray[412] = "\"Mathematics is not a deductive science – that's a cliché. When " +
"you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, " +
"and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, " +
"experimentation, guesswork.\"" + "
" + " -- Paul Halmos";
quoteArray[413] = "\"It's not the situation ... it's your reaction to the situation.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Robert Conklin";
quoteArray[414] = "\"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, " +
"the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the " +
"difference.\"" + "
" + " -- Reinhold Niebuhr";
quoteArray[415] = "\"Success does not consist in never making mistakes, but in never " +
"making the same one a second time.\"" + "
" + " -- George Bernard Shaw";
quoteArray[416] = "\"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Bernard Baruch";
quoteArray[417] = "\"In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)";
quoteArray[418] = "\"The symbolism of algebra is its glory. But it also is its curse.\"" +
"
" +
" -- William Betz";
quoteArray[419] = "\"I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my " +
"telephone. My wish has come true ... I no longer know how to use " +
"my telephone.\"" + "
" + " -- Bjarne Stroustrup";
quoteArray[420] = "\"If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. " +
"If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Jimmy Buffett";
quoteArray[421] = "\"We use only 10% of our brains… Imagine how smart we " +
"would be if we used the other 60%!\"" +
"
" +
" -- Ellen DeGeneres";
quoteArray[422] = "\"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion " +
"of a variable.\"" + "
" + " -– K. Dewdney";
quoteArray[423] = "\"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new " +
"functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by" +
" the dog.\"" + "
" + " -- Doug Larson";
quoteArray[424] = "\"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, " +
"and I'm not sure about the former.\"" + "
" + " –- Albert Einstein ";
quoteArray[425] = "\"You can not feed the hungry on statistics.\"" + "
" + " -- Heinrich Heine";
quoteArray[426] = "\"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that " +
"need our advice.\"" + "
" + " -- Bill Cosby ";
quoteArray[427] = "\"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. " +
"When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour." +
" That's relativity.\"" + "
" + " -- Albert Einstein ";
quoteArray[428] = "\"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.\"" +
"
" +
" -- W.C. Fields";
quoteArray[429] = "\"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Groucho Marx ";
quoteArray[430] = "\"Hardware -- the parts of a computer that can be kicked.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Jeff Pesis ";
quoteArray[431] = "\"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; " +
"he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Confucius ";
quoteArray[432] = "\"Do the math: Count your blessings.\"";
quoteArray[433] = "\"Students learn more when they complete homework that " +
"is graded, commented upon, and discussed by their teachers. " +
"The teacher's feedback -- reinforcing what has been done " +
"correctly and re-teaching what has not -- is key.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Nancy Protheroe ";
quoteArray[434] = "\"If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of " +
"typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty " +
"that one of them will come out with an exact version of the " +
"'Iliad.'\"" + "
" + " -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb ";
quoteArray[435] = "\"A math student's best friend is BOB (the Back Of the Book), " +
"but remember that BOB doesn't come to school on test days.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Josh Folb ";
quoteArray[436] = "\"The surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Montaigne ";
quoteArray[437] = "\"Do math and you can do anything.\"" +
"
" +
" -- N.C.T.M. slogan ";
quoteArray[438] = "\"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Paul Erdos ";
quoteArray[439] = "\"The pursuit of learning is not a piece of content that can be " +
"taught. It is a value that teachers model. Only teachers who are " +
"avid, internally motivated learners can truly teach their students " +
"the joy of learning.\"" + "
" + " -- Martin Haberman";
quoteArray[440] = "\"It isn't enough just to learn -- one must learn how to learn, " +
"how to learn without classrooms, without teachers, without " +
"textbooks. Learn, in short, how to think and analyze and " +
"decide and discover and create.\"" + "
" + " -- Michael Bassis";
quoteArray[441] = "\"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they " +
"can't see the problem.\"" + "
" + " -- G. K. Chesterton";
quoteArray[442] = "\"Mathematics is an independent world created out of pure " +
"intelligence.\"" + "
" + " -- William Wordsworth";
quoteArray[443] = "\"Read Euler: he is our master in everything.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Pierre-Simon de Laplace";
quoteArray[444] = "\"I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide " +
"to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear " +
"the sound of closing doors.\"" + "
" + " -- James Caballero";
quoteArray[445] = "\"Charlie Chaplin once allegedly said to Albert Einstein: \"The people" +
" applaud me because everyone understands me, and they applaud you " +
"because no one understands you.\""
quoteArray[446] = "\"Share knowledge, not answers.\""
quoteArray[447] = "\"Any fool can know. The point is to understand.\"" + "
" + " -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[448] = "\"It has been said that Newton was born in the same year that Galileo died " +
"because God wanted someone of that caliber on Earth at all times.\""
quoteArray[449] = "\"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear " +
"bright until you hear them speak.\""
quoteArray[450] = "\"Happiness is a state of the heart. It is not a function of " +
"circumstances.\""
quoteArray[451] = "\"Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Yogi Berra"
quoteArray[452] = "\"Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.\"" +
"
" +
"-- J. H. Poincare "
quoteArray[453] = "\"Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, " +
"amusing, and without peril to the state.\"" + "
" + " -- Plato"
quoteArray[454] = "\"The difference between an introvert mathematician and an extrovert mathematicians is: " +
" An introvert mathematician looks at his shoes while talking to you. " +
"An extrovert mathematician looks at your shoes.\" "
quoteArray[455] = "\"Golden rule of deriving: never trust any result that was proved after 11 PM.\""
quoteArray[456] = "\"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Hal Abelson "
quoteArray[457] = "\"The reason that every major university maintains a department of mathematics is that it " +
"is cheaper to do this than to institutionalize all those people.\""
quoteArray[458] = "\"Analytic Geometry immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single " +
"step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.\"" + "
" + " -- John Stuart Mill"
quoteArray[459] = "\"Old Saying: If you really want to learn something, teach it to someone. " +
"
" +
" New Saying: If you really want to learn something, teach it to a computer.\" "
quoteArray[460] = "\"The shortest distance between two pixels on a computer screen is not necessarily" +
" a straight line\""
quoteArray[461] = "\"Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction.\""
quoteArray[462] = "\"The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so" +
" variously translated as Euclid.\"" + "
" + " -- Augustus De Morgan"
quoteArray[463] = "\"Euler -- The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Richard Courant"
quoteArray[464] = "\"Number rules the universe.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Pythagoras"
quoteArray[465] = "\"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night;
God said, 'Let Newton be' " +
"and all was light.\"" + "
" + " -- Alexander Pope"
quoteArray[466] = "\"Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for " +
"we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.\"" + "
" + " -- Joseph-Louis Lagrange"
quoteArray[466] = "\"Do not then train boys to learning by force and hardness; but direct them to it by " +
"what amuses their minds.\"" + "
" + " -- Plato"
quoteArray[467] = "\"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction " +
"we are moving.\"" + "
" + " -- Oliver Wendell Holmes"
quoteArray[468] = "\"Without the assistance of the Divine Being... I cannot succeed. With that assistance, " +
"I cannot fail.\"" + "
" + " -- Abraham Lincoln"
quoteArray[469] = "\"I can teach you anything, once I have your undivided attention.\""
quoteArray[470] = "\"You can and will learn if you come to my class.\""
quoteArray[471] = "\"Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.\"" +
" -- Brian Tracy"
quoteArray[472] = "\"Laughter is a shock absorber that eases the blows of life.\""
quoteArray[473] = "\"A goal without a plan is just a wish.\"" +
" -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery"
quoteArray[474] = "\"Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'.\"" +
" -- Billy Preston"
quoteArray[475] = "\"Perhaps the greatest shortcoming as a society is in the low expectations we set for " +
"both ourselves and our children.\" -- Jim Rubillo"
quoteArray[476] = "\"Students don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.\" " +
" -- Mrs. Theiler"
quoteArray[477] = "\"Too many students give up upon encountering difficulties in math, when just trying a few" +
" strategies could mean the difference between succeeding and failing.\" -- Arthur E. Schwartz"
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