// file named "quotes.js"
// JScript source code from Jaime Garcia-Ramirez
var quoteArray = new Array ();
// Mathematicians 0 to 42
quoteArray[0] = "\"If I have seen farther than other men, it is because
" +
" I have stood on the shoulders of giants.\"" + "
" + " -- Isaac Newton";
quoteArray[1] = "\"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because
giants were standing on my shoulders.\" " +
"
" + "-- Hal Abelson ";
quoteArray[2] = "\"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[3] = "\"Do not worry too much about your difficulties in
" +
"mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[4] = "\"The reading of all good books is like a conversation
" +
"with the finest people of past centuries.\"" + "
" + " -- Descartes";
quoteArray[5] = "\"It is easier to square a circle than to get round a
" +
" mathematician.\"" + "
" + " -- de Morgan";
quoteArray[6] = "\"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[7] = "\"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[8] = "\"Mathematics is written for mathematicians.\"" + "
" + " -- Copernicus";
quoteArray[9] = "\"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the
individual" +
" who can labor in freedom.\"" + "
" + " -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[10] = "\"The mathematician has reached the highest rung
on the ladder of human thought.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Havelock Ellis";
quoteArray[11] = "\"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[12] = "\"I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for" +
" physics.
Mathematics is in between.\"" + "
" + " -- George Polya"
quoteArray[13] = "\"All mathematicians share ... a sense of amazement over the infinite
" +
"depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Martin Gardner";
quoteArray[14] = "\"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Bernard Baruch";
quoteArray[15] = "\"Physicists defer only to mathematicians, and
mathematicians defer" +
" only to God.\"";
quoteArray[16] = "\"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[17] = "\"Old mathematicians never die; they just become angles.\"";
quoteArray[18] = "\"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[19] = "\"I have no particular talent. I am only inquisitive.\"" + "
" + " -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[20] = "\"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[21] = "\"Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.\"" +
"
" +
" -- John von Neumann";
quoteArray[22] = "\"With me everything turns into mathematics.\"" + "
" + " -- Descartes";
quoteArray[23] = "\"One should always generalize.\"" + "
" + " -- Carl Jacobi";
quoteArray[24] = "\"We think in generalities, but we live in details.\"" + "
"
+ "-- Alfred North Whitehead";
quoteArray[25] = "\"You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason:
we were lazy.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Max Rosenlicht";
quoteArray[26] = "\"A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of
bad proofs he has given.\"" +
"
" +
" -- A. S. Besicovitch";
quoteArray[27] = "\"The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much
read and so" +
" variously translated as Euclid.\"" + "
" + " -- Augustus De Morgan";
quoteArray[28] = "\"Euler -- The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Richard Courant";
quoteArray[29] = "\"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night;
God said, 'Let Newton be' " +
"and all was light.\"" + "
" + " -- Alexander Pope";
quoteArray[30] = "\"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[31] = "\"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Paul Erdos ";
quoteArray[32] = "\"Read Euler: he is our master in everything.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Pierre-Simon de Laplace";
quoteArray[33] = "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[34] = "\"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[35] = "\"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[36] = "\"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[37] = "\"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[38] = "\"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[39] = "When Euclid was asked, \"But what do I gain from this?\",
he told his servant to give the " +
"boy a coin so that the student
could see some gain from his learning.";
quoteArray[40] = "\"Old math teachers never die; they just pass into another sphere.\"";
quoteArray[41] = "\"Old math teachers never die -- they just lose their functions.\"";
quoteArray[42] = "\"Old math teachers never die, they just tend to infinity.\"";
// computers 43 to 51
quoteArray[43] = "\"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[44] = "\"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a " +
"computer.\"";
quoteArray[45] = "\"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new " +
"functions,
including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by" +
" the dog.\"" + "
" + " -- Doug Larson";
quoteArray[46] = "\"Hardware -- the parts of a computer that can be kicked.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Jeff Pesis ";
quoteArray[47] = "\"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[48] = "\"The shortest distance between two pixels on a computer screen
is not necessarily" +
" a straight line\"";
quoteArray[49] = "\"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[50] = "\"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a " +
"computer.
Art is everything else we do.\"" + "
" + " -- Donald Knuth";
quoteArray[51] = "\"In the binary system we count on our fists instead of on our fingers.\"";
// Math, Logic, Knowledge, and Problem Solving 52 to 106
quoteArray[52] = "\"There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are
" +
"more or less solved.\"" + "
" + " -- Henri Poincare";
quoteArray[53] = "\"Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge
" +
" than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human
" +
"agency.\"" + "
" + " -- Descartes";
quoteArray[54] = "\"Logic is the anatomy of thought.\"" + "
" + " -- John Locke";
quoteArray[55] = "\"The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated,
" +
" but to make complicated things simple.\"" + "
" + " -- S. Gudder";
quoteArray[56] = "\"Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing
in the least obvious " +
"way.\"" + "
" + " -- George Polya";
quoteArray[57] = "\"Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Edward Kasner and James R. Newman";
quoteArray[58] = "\"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[59] = "\"Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic
it is" +
" necessary to use logic.\"" + "
" + " -- Pierre Boatroux";
quoteArray[60] = "\"Imagination is more important than knowledge.\"" + "
" + " -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[61] = "\"It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be
to " +
"make the students think.\"" + "
" + " -- John Wesley Young";
quoteArray[62] = "\"Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs.
Other " +
"people learn from explanations.\"" + "
" + " -- Ralph Boas";
quoteArray[63] = "\"Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.\"" + "
" + " -- E.T. Bell";
quoteArray[64] = "\"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards
to solve " +
"other problems.\"" + "
" + " -- Rene Descartes";
quoteArray[65] = "\"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Descartes";
quoteArray[66] = "\"In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Johann von Neumann";
quoteArray[67] = "\"We only think when confronted with a problem.\"" + "
" + " -- John Dewey";
quoteArray[68] = "\"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[69] = "\"Mathematics -- this may surprise or shock some -- is never
" +
"deductive in creation.\" " + "
" + " -- Paul Halmos";
quoteArray[70] = "\"Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition.
Logic " +
"then sanctions the conquests of intuition.\"" + "
" + " -- Morris Kline";
quoteArray[71] = "\"The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning
but " +
"imagination.\"" + "
" + " -- Augustus de Morgan";
quoteArray[72] = "\"If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is
" +
" an easier problem you can't solve: find it.\"" +
"
" +
" -- George Polya"
quoteArray[73] = "\"A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is
" +
"a grain of discovery in any problem.\"" + "
" + " -- George Polya"
quoteArray[74] = "\"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[75] = "\"There are many questions which fools can ask that wise
" +
"men cannot answer.\"" + "
" + " -- George Polya"
quoteArray[76] = "\"What is now proved was once only imagined.\"" + "
" + " -- Proverb.";
quoteArray[77] = "\"A problem well stated is half-solved.\"" + "
" + " -- John Dewey";
quoteArray[78] = "\"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[79] = "\"Sufficient unto the day is the rigor thereof.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Eliakim H. Moore";
quoteArray[80] = "\"Major paradoxes provide food for logical thought for
decades and " +
"sometimes centuries.\"" + "
" + " -- Nicholas Bourbaki ";
quoteArray[81] = "\"Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Morris Kline";
quoteArray[82] = "\"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[83] = "\"Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Benjamin Pierce";
quoteArray[84] = "\"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of " +
"reasoning.\"" + "
" + " -- Plato";
quoteArray[85] = "\"Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Sir Arthur Eddington ";
quoteArray[86] = "\"Histories make men wise; poets witty;
the mathematics, subtile; " +
"natural philosophy, deep;
moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to " +
"contend.\"" + "
" + " -- Francis Bacon";
quoteArray[87] = "\"Q.E.D. (Quod Erat Demonstrandum: Which was to be proven.)\"" +
"
" +
" -- Euclid";
quoteArray[88] = "\"Cogito, Ergo Sum. I think, therefore I am.\"" + "
" + " -- Descartes";
quoteArray[89] = "\"I think, therefore I laugh.\"" + "
" + " -- John Allen Poulos";
quoteArray[90] = "\"I do not think -- therefore I am not.\"";
quoteArray[91] = "\"Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules.
" +
"Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.\"";
quoteArray[92] = "\"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[93] = "\"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";
quoteArray[94] = "\"I do not believe that the same God who endowed us with sense,
reason, and intellect " +
"intended us to forgo their use.\"" +
"
" + " -- Galileo Galilei";
quoteArray[95] = "\"Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world
is the " +
"triumph of some enthusiasm.\"" + "
" + " -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ";
quoteArray[96] = "\"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[97] = "\"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers!\"" + "
" + " -- R. W. Hamming ";
quoteArray[98] = "\"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[99] = "\"What humans do with the language of mathematics is to
describe patterns...\"" +
"
" +
" -- Lynn A. Steen";
quoteArray[100] = "\"Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies
not in the " +
"discovery of truth, but in the search for it.\"" + "
" + " -- Tolstoy";
quoteArray[101] = "\"Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.\"" +
"
" +
" -- John A. Van de Walle";
quoteArray[102] = "\"Logic doesn't apply to the real world.\"" + "
" + " -- Marvin Lee Minsky";
quoteArray[103] = "\"Any fool can know. The point is to understand.\"" + "
" + " -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[104] = "\"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[105] = "\"Ganas is all you need.\"" +
"
" +
"[Ganas is Spanish for passion, guts, " +
"determination, desire]" + "
" + " -- Jaime Escalante ";
quoteArray[106] = "\"I do not believe in the gifted. " +
"If [the students] have ganas
[Spanish for desire], " +
"I can make them do it.\"" + "
" + " -- Jaime Escalante";
// Math and the World 107 to 128
quoteArray[107] = "\"All the effects of nature are only mathematical results of a
" +
"small number of immutable laws.\"" + "
" + " -- Pierre Simon de La Place"
quoteArray[108] = "\"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[109] = "\"The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately
" +
" connected with the prosperity of the state.\"" + "
" + " -- Napoleon";
quoteArray[110] = "\"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty
to study " +
"mathematics and philosophy.\"" + "
" + " -- John Adams";
quoteArray[111] = "\"Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad,
and theology " +
"makes them sinful.\"" + "
" + " -- Martin Luther";
quoteArray[112] = "\"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[113] = "\"God exists since mathematics is consistent and the devil
exists " +
"since we cannot prove the consistency.\"" + "
" + " -- Morris Kline";
quoteArray[114] = "\"Nature's great book is written in mathematics.\"" + "
" + " -- Galileo";
quoteArray[115] = "\"Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity,
I do not " +
"understand it myself any more.\"" + "
" + " -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[116] = "\"God wrote the universe in the language of mathematics.\"" + "
" + " -- Galileo";
quoteArray[117] = "\"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only
" +
" because they do not realize how complicated life is.\"";
quoteArray[118] = "\"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[119] = "\"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[120] = "\"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it
can " +
"never be fully learnt.\"" + "
" + " -- Izaak Walton";
quoteArray[121] = "\"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[122] = "\"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[123] = "\"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";
quoteArray[124] = "\"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[125] = "\"The linear-programming was -- and is -- perhaps the
single most " +
"important real-life problem.\"" + "
" + " -- Keith Devlin ";
quoteArray[126] = "\"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[127] = "\"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality,
they are not certain; and " +
"as far as they are certain,
they do not refer to reality..\ " +
"
" + " -- Albert Einstein ";
quoteArray[128] = "\"I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way
of making it visible.\"" +
"
" + " -- May Sarton ";
// Math and Science 129 to 143
quoteArray[129] = "\"Mathematics is the Queen of the Sciences, and number
theory the " +
"queen of mathematics..\"" + "
" + " -- Carl Friedrich Gauss";
quoteArray[130] = "\"Mathematics is the gate and key to the sciences.\"" + "
" + " -- Roger Bacon";
quoteArray[131] = "\"Mathematics is the science of definiteness, the necessary
vocabulary" +
" of those who know.\"" + "
" + " -- W. J. White";
quoteArray[132] = "\"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[133] = "\"No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot
be " +
"demonstrated mathematically.\"" + "
" + " -- Leonardo da Vinci";
quoteArray[134] = "\"Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because
by " +
"means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Leonardo da Vinci";
quoteArray[135] = "\"There can be very little of present-day science and technology
that is " +
"not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.\"" +
"
";
quoteArray[136] = "\"A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of
experimental work," +
" must essentially be mathematical.\"" + "
" + " -- P.A.M. Dirac";
quoteArray[137] = "\"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[138] = "\"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[139] = "\"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[140] = "\"Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and
discovers the " +
"secret analogies that unite them.\"" + "
" + " -- Joseph Fourier ";
quoteArray[141] = "\"The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of
mathematical" +
" discoveries.\"" + "
" + " -- Jean-Baptist-Joseph Fourier";
quoteArray[142] = "\"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[143] = "\"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 ";
// Math, Beauty, Poetry, and the Arts 144 to 179
// Beauty
quoteArray[144] = "\"When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty.
I think only " +
"of how to solve the problem. But when I have
finished, if the solution " +
"is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.\" " +
"
" + " -- Richard Buckminster Fuller ";
quoteArray[145] = "\"The mathematical rules of the universe are visible
to men in " +
"the form of beauty.\"" + "
" + " -- John Michel";
quoteArray[146] = "\"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[147] = "\"Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.\"" +
"
" +
" -- George Polya";
quoteArray[148] = "\"The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry,
" +
"and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Aristotle";
quoteArray[149] = "\"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth,
but supreme " +
"beauty.\"" + "
" + " -- Bertrand Russell";
quoteArray[150] = "\"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[151] = "\"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[152] = "\"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[153] = "\"If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy.
If I am happy, " +
"I do mathematics to keep happy.\"" + "
" + " -- Alfréd Rényi";
quoteArray[154] = "\"Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean " +
"the same thing.\"" + "
" + " -- Danica McKellar ";
// Poetry
quoteArray[155] = "\"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[156] = "\"Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.\"" + "
" + " -- Gustave Flaubert";
quoteArray[157] = "\"Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Aleksandr Pushkin";
quoteArray[158] = "\"The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with
" +
"measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.\"" +
"
" +
" -- William James";
quoteArray[159] = "\"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[160] = "\"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[161] = "\"It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a " +
"poet in soul.\"" + "
" + " -- Sophia Kovalevskaya";
quoteArray[162] = "\"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[163] = "\"A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will
never " +
"be a complete mathematician.\"" + "
" + " -- Karl Weierstrass.";
// Music
quoteArray[164] = "\"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from
counting " +
"without being aware that it is counting.\"" + "
" + " -- Leibniz";
quoteArray[165] = "\"Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the
primary " +
"manifestations of the free creative power of
the human mind.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Hermann Weyl";
quoteArray[166] = "\"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[167] = "\"A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished
musicians." +
" Is it because music and mathematics share patterns
that are beautiful?\"" +
"
" +
" -- Martin Gardner ";
// Art
quoteArray[168] = "\"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[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] = "\"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 borderline
between the two respective domains.\"" +
"
" +
" -- M.C. Escher ";
quoteArray[171] = "\"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[172] = "\"Mathematics -- the subtle fine art.\" " +
"
" +
" -- Jamie Byrnie Shaw";
quoteArray[173] = "\"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[174] = "\"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[175] = "\"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
" +
"It is the source of all true art and science.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[176] = "\"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in
creative " +
"expression and knowledge.\"" + "
" + " -- Albert Einstein";
quoteArray[177] = "\"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[178] = "\"Film is one of the three universal languages,
the other two: mathematics and music.\"";
quoteArray[179] = "\"Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.\"";
// Numbers and Arithmetic 180 to 225
quoteArray[180] = "\"Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.\"" + "
" + " -- Descartes";
quoteArray[181] = "\"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[182] = "\"There still remain three studies suitable for free man.
Arithmetic is one " +
"of them.\"" + "
" + " -- Plato";
quoteArray[183] = "\"Life is too short for long division.\"";
quoteArray[184] = "\"People who don't count won't count.\"" + "
" + " -- Anatole France";
quoteArray[185] = "\"Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is " +
"knowledge itself.\"" + "
" + " -- Plato";
quoteArray[186] = "\"Wherever there is number, there is beauty.\"" + "
" + " -- Proclus";
quoteArray[187] = "\"What would life be without arithmetic but a scene of horrors?\"" +
"
" +
" -- Sydney Smith";
quoteArray[188] = "\"Black holes are where God divided by zero.\"" + "
" + " -- Steven Wright";
quoteArray[189] = "\"He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Plato";
quoteArray[190] = "\"The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Leopold Kronecker";
quoteArray[191] = "\"Whenever you can, count.\"" + "
" + " -- Sir Francis Galton";
quoteArray[192] = "\"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[193] = "\"Numbers constitute the only universal language.\"" + "
" + " -- Nathanael West";
quoteArray[194] = "\"The arithmetic of life does not always have a logical answer.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Inshirah Abdur-Rauf";
quoteArray[195] = "\"There are 10 types of people in the world --
Those who understand" +
" binary, and those who don't.\""
quoteArray[196] = "\"Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty
without taking off your" +
" shoes.\"" + "
" + " -- Mickey Mouse";
quoteArray[197] = "\"But don't panic. Base 8 is just like Base 10 really.
" +
" If you're missing two fingers.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Tom Lehrer";
quoteArray[198] = "\"Not everything that counts can be counted.
" +
"Not everything that can be counted counts.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Albert Einstein ";
quoteArray[199] = "\"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[200] = "\"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways.
" +
"But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round " +
"numbers.\"" + "
" + " -- Scott Adams ";
quoteArray[201] = "\"Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.\"" + "
" + " -- Steven Wright";
quoteArray[202] = "\"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[203] = "\"Numerical precision is the very soul of science.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson";
quoteArray[204] = "\"Numbers are the free creation of the human mind.\"" + "
" +
" -- Richard Dedekind ";
quoteArray[205] = "\"If you would make a man happy, do not add to his
possessions but subtract " +
"from the sum of his desires.\"" + "
" + " -- Seneca";
quoteArray[206] = "\"All the mathematical sciences are founded on the
relations between " +
"physical laws and laws of numbers.\"" + "
" + " -- James Clerk Maxwell";
quoteArray[207] = "\"A few honest men are better than numbers.\"" + "
" + " -- Oliver Cromwell";
quoteArray[208] = "\"Number rules the universe.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Pythagoras"
quoteArray[209] = "\"'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[210] = "\"Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six
is thirteen, and four " +
"times seven is -- oh dear! I shall
never get to twenty at that rate!\"" +
"
" + " -- Lewis Carroll from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland";
quoteArray[211] = "\"Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God
created the world in six days; rather the " +
"contrary is true:
God created the world in six days because this number is
perfect, and it " +
"would remain perfect , even if the work
of the six days did not exist.\""+
"
" + " -- St. Augustine in The City of God";
quoteArray[212] = "\"It will be another million years, at least, before we
understand the " +
"primes.\"" + "
" + " -- Paul Erdos";
quoteArray[213] = "\"Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water
can 55 " +
"elephants drink?\"" + "
" + " -- Dr. Seuss";
quoteArray[214] = "\"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[215] = "\"We use only 10% of our brains… Imagine how smart we " +
"would
be if we used the other 60%!\"" +
"
" +
" -- Ellen DeGeneres";
quoteArray[216] = "\"Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Yogi Berra";
quoteArray[217] = "\"Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'.\"" +
"
" + " -- Billy Preston";
quoteArray[218] = "\"Natural numbers are better for your health.\"";
quoteArray[219] = "\"Decimals have a point.\"";
quoteArray[220] = "\"One and one and one is three.\" " +
"
" + " -- The Beatles"
quoteArray[221] = "\"The purpose of computation is insight, " +
"not numbers.\"" + "
" + " -- Richard Hamming ";
quoteArray[222] = "\"Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their
age in " +
"half, double the price of their clothes, and always" + "
" + " add at least five years to " +
"the age of their best friend.\"" + "
" + " -- Marcel Achard ";
quoteArray[223] = "\"If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits
in " +
"your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.\"" ;
quoteArray[224] = "\"God is real, unless declared integer.\"";
quoteArray[225] = "\"Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early
in life" +
" that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely " + "
" + " if he " +
"is fool enough to do so.\"";
// Algebra 226 to 237
quoteArray[226] = "\"One of the most important concepts in all of mathematics
is that " +
"of function.\"" + "
" + " -- T.P. Dick and C.M. Patton ";
quoteArray[227] = "\"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion " +
"of a variable.\"" + "
" + " -– K. Dewdney";
quoteArray[228] = "\"One person's constant is another person's variable.\"" + "
" + " -- Susan Gerhart";
quoteArray[229] = "\"Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.\"" +
"
" +
" -- D'Alembert";
quoteArray[230] = "\"Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created
for " +
"rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Alfred North Whitehead";
quoteArray[231] = "\"I was x years old in the year x2.\"" + "
" + " -- Augustus De Morgan" +
" (when asked about his age)";
quoteArray[232] = "\"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[233] = "\"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[234] = "\"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[235] = "\"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[236] = "\"The symbolism of algebra is its glory. But it also is its curse.\"" +
"
" +
" -- William Betz";
quoteArray[237] = "\"As long as there is algebra, there will be prayer in school.\" " +
"
" + " -- Larry Miller ";
// Geometry 238 to 261
quoteArray[238] = "\"There is no Royal Road to Geometry.\"" + "
" + " -- Euclid";
quoteArray[239] = "\"Geometry existed before creation.\"" + "
" + " -- Plato";
quoteArray[240] = "\"God ever geometrizes.\"" + "
" + " -- Plato";
quoteArray[241] = "\"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here.\" " +
"
" +
"-- inscription above Plato's Academy";
quoteArray[242] = "\"Circles to square and cubes to double
would give a man " +
"excessive trouble.\"" + "
" + " -- Matthew Prior";
quoteArray[243] = "\"There is geometry in the humming of the string.\"" + "
" + " -- Pythagoras";
quoteArray[244] = "\"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[245] = "\"I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Ice-T";
quoteArray[246] = "\"Geometry is the foundation of all painting.\"" + "
" + " -- Albrecht Durer";
quoteArray[247] = "\"Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.\"" + "
" + " -- Euripides";
quoteArray[248] = "\"The only angle from which to approach a problem is the TRY-Angle.\"";
quoteArray[249] = "\"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[250] = "\"The shortest distance between two points is under construction.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Bill Sanderson";
quoteArray[251] = "\"Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare.\"" +
"
" + " -- Edna St. Vincent Millay";
quoteArray[252] = "\"Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.\"" +
"
" +
" -- George Polya"
quoteArray[253] = "\"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.
" +
"Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Thomas Robert Malthus";
quoteArray[254] = "\"Without geometry life is pointless.\"";
quoteArray[255] = "\"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[256] = "\"Geometry has two great treasures: one is the Theorem
of Pythagoras; the other, " +
"the di\vision of a line into extreme
and mean ratio. The first we may compare to " +
"a measure
of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.\"" +
"
" + " -- Johannes Kepler";
quoteArray[257] = "\"All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Thomas Banchoff (in introduction to Flatland)";
quoteArray[258] = "\"Where there is matter, there is geometry.\"" + "
" + " -- Johannes Kepler ";
quoteArray[259] = "\"Geometry is just plane fun.\"";
quoteArray[260] = "\"Polar coordinates aren't just arctic fashions.\"";
quoteArray[261] = "\"Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between
point A and " +
"point B is seldom a straight line.\"";
// Statistics and Probability 262 to 278
quoteArray[262] = "\"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Benjamin Disraeli";
quoteArray[263] = "\"Statistics are no substitute for judgment.\"" + "
" + " -- Henry Clay";
quoteArray[264] = "\"Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Paul Brodeur";
quoteArray[265] = "\"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[266] = "\"42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.\"" + "
" + " -- Steven Wright";
quoteArray[267] = "\"The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but
common sense " +
"reduced to calculus.\"" + "
" + " -- Pierre de La Place";
quoteArray[268] = "\"Now don't be sad, 'cause two out of three ain't bad.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Meatloaf";
quoteArray[269] = "\"You can not feed the hungry on statistics.\"" + "
" + " -- Heinrich Heine";
quoteArray[270] = "\"Statistics means never having to say you're certain.\"";
quoteArray[271] = "\"The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.\"";
quoteArray[272] = "\"Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.\"" + "
" + " -- Morris Kline";
quoteArray[273] = "\"God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the
dice where " +
"they cannot be seen.\"" + "
" + " -- Stephen Hawking";
quoteArray[274] = "\"The most important questions in life are, for the " +
"most part,
really only problems of probability.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Pierre Simon de La Place";
quoteArray[275] = "\"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. " +
"
" +
" -- Joseph Stalin";
quoteArray[276] = "\"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts...
" +
"for support rather than illumination.\"" +
"
" + " - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) ";
quoteArray[277] = "\"A statistician is someone who is good with numbers, " +
"
but lacks the personality to be an accountant.\"";
quoteArray[278] = "\"It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all " +
"
doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class.\"";
// Calculus and Infinity 279 to 322
quoteArray[279] = "\"I recoil with dismay and horror at this lamentable
" +
"plague of functions which do not have derivatives.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Charles Hermite";
quoteArray[280] = "\"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[281] = "\"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[282] = "\"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[283] = "\"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[284] = "\"Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought
yet devised by " +
"the wit of man.\"" + "
" + " -- W. B. Smith";
quoteArray[285] = "\"Alcohol and Calculus Don't Mix; Never Drink and Derive.\"";
quoteArray[286] = "\"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[287] = "\"The calculus is one of the greatest edifices constructed by mankind.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Cambridge Conference on School Mathematics";
quoteArray[288] = "\"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[289] = "\"The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely
different " +
"form when developed for the complex numbers.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Keith Devlin";
quoteArray[290] = "\"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[291] = "\"The calculus is the story this [the Western] world
first told itself as it " +
"became the modern world.\"" + "
" + " -- David Berlinski";
quoteArray[292] = "\"One good thing about teaching calculus is that you
develop a hardened attitude " +
"towards repeating yourself.\"" + "
" + " -- Phil Hanlon ";
quoteArray[293] = "\"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[294] = "\"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[295] = "\"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[296] = "\"Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction.\"";
quoteArray[297] = "\"The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete.\" " +
"
" + " -- David Mumford "
quoteArray[298] = "\"Everything tries to be round.\"" + "
" + " -- Black Elk";
quoteArray[299] = "\"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[300] = "\"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[301] = "\"Common integration is only the memory of differentiation...\"" +
"
" +
" -- A. De Morgan";
quoteArray[302] = "\"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[303] = "\"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[304] = "\"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[305] = "\"Calculus has its limits.\"";
quoteArray[306] = "\"Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents
and say, I am dropping " +
"it. And they'll understand.\"" + "
" + " -- Bill Cosby ";
quoteArray[307] = "\"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties;
He integrates empirically.\"";
quoteArray[308] = "\"Numberless are the world's wonders.\" " +
"
" +
"-- Sophocles";
quoteArray[309] = "\"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[310] = "\"Mathematics, in one view, is the science of infinity.\" " +
"
" +
"-- P. Davis and R. Hersh";
quoteArray[311] = "\"The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also
the" +
" greatest enemy of our peace of mind.\"" + "
" + " -- James Pierpont";
quoteArray[312] = "\"To infinity and beyond.\"" + "
" + " -- Buzz Lightyear";
quoteArray[313] = "\"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so
profoundly " +
"the spirit of man.\"" + "
" + " -- David Hilbert";
quoteArray[314] = "\"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[315] = "\"Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.\"" + "
" + " -- Norman Cousins ";
quoteArray[316] = "\"[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[317] = "\"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Galileo Galilei ";
quoteArray[318] = "\"The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Edward Kasner and James Newman";
quoteArray[319] = "\"God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity,
had to invent " +
"finite sets.\"" + "
" + " -- Gian Carlo Rota ";
quoteArray[320] = "\"Zeno was concerned with three problems...These are the
problem of the " +
"infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.\"" + "
" + " -- Bertrand Russell";
quoteArray[321] = "\"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
" +
"and I'm not sure about the former.\"" + "
" + " –- Albert Einstein ";
quoteArray[322] = "\"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 ";
// Miscellaneous Quotes about Mathematics 323 to 371
quoteArray[323] = "\"There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract,
which may not" +
" someday be applied to the phenomena
of the real world.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Nicolai Lobachevsky";
quoteArray[324] = "\"St. Augustine had good insight on the division of
" +
"labor between God and his children when he wrote that we
" +
"should work as if everything depended on our efforts and
" +
"pray as if everything depended on the Almighty.\"";
quoteArray[325] = "\"Mathematics is a game played according to certain
simple rules with " +
"meaningless marks on paper.\"" + "
" + " -- David Hilbert";
quoteArray[326] = "\"Mathematics is the science of what is clear by itself.\"" + "
" + " -- Carl Jacobi";
quoteArray[327] = "\"Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that
there are paradoxes in " +
"mathematics.\"" + "
" + " -- Kasner and Newman";
quoteArray[328] = "\"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[329] = "\"All great therorems were discovered after midnight.\"" + "
"
+ " -- Adrian Mathesis";
quoteArray[330] = "\"Life is good for only two things: discovering
mathematics and teaching " +
"mathematics.\"" + "
" + " -- Simeon Poisson";
quoteArray[331] = "\"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[332] = "\"Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.\" " +
"
" +
" -- John Allen Paulos";
quoteArray[333] = "\"Small minds discuss persons. Average minds " +
"discuss
events. Great minds discuss ideas." +
" Really great minds
discuss mathematics.\"";
quoteArray[334] = "\"The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Alfred North Whitehead";
quoteArray[335] = "\"Math class is tough.\"" + "
" + " -- Barbie Doll (1992) ";
quoteArray[336] = "\"Mathematics is not a spectator sport!\"" + "
" + " -- Karl J. Smith";
quoteArray[337] = "\"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[338] = "\"Mathematics is the life of the gods.\"" + "
" + " -- Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)";
quoteArray[339] = "\"Mathematics should be fun.\"" + "
" + " -- Peter J. Hilton";
quoteArray[340] = "\"The essence of mathematics is in its freedom.\"" + "
" + " -- Georg Cantor";
quoteArray[341] = "\"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[342] = "\"Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics,
must come to an end.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Paul Erdos";
quoteArray[343] = "\"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[344] = "\"Mathematical knowledge adds vigour to the mind,
frees it from " +
"prejudice, credulity, and superstition.\"" + "
" + " -- John Arbuthnot";
quoteArray[345] = "\"Learning to solve problems is the principal
reason for studying " +
"mathematics.\"" + "
" + " -- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics";
quoteArray[346] = "\"To state a theorem and then to show examples
of it is literally to " +
"teach backwards.\"" + "
" + " -- E. Kim Nebeuts";
quoteArray[347] = "\"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[348] = "\"In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)";
quoteArray[349] = "\"A diagram is worth a thousand proofs.\"" + "
" + " -- Dr. Carl E. Linderholm";
quoteArray[350] = "\"Where the pessimist sees a half-closed interval,
the optimist sees" +
" a half-open interval.\"";
quoteArray[351] = "\"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[352] = "\"The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.\"" +
"
" + " -- Alfred North Whitehead";
quoteArray[353] = "\"Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and said,
" +
"'You make mathematics seem like fun.' I was inspired to reply,
" +
"'If it isn't fun, why do it?'\"" + "
" + " -- Ralph P. Boas ";
quoteArray[354] = "\"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[355] = "\"Do math and you can do anything.\"" +
"
" +
" -- N.C.T.M. slogan ";
quoteArray[356] = "\"Mathematics is the handwriting on the human
consciousness of the very " +
"Spirit of Life itself.\"" + "
" + " -- Claude Bragdon ";
quoteArray[357] = "\"Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form,
because there " +
"is no other guidance we can have.\"" + "
" + " -- Charles Darwin ";
quoteArray[358] = "\"The Mandelbrot set is the most complex
mathematical object known to mankind.\"" +
"
" +
" -- Benoit Mandelbrot";
quoteArray[359] = "\"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[360] = "\"Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young,
not too " +
"difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.\"" + "
" + " -- Plato";
quoteArray[361] = "\"The greatest unsolved theorem in mathematics is why
some people are " +
"better at it than others.\"" + "
" + " -- Adrian Mathesis";
quoteArray[362] = "\"Mathematics is an independent world created out of pure " +
"intelligence.\"" + "
" + " -- William Wordsworth";
quoteArray[363] = "\"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[364] = "\"Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.\"" +
"
" +
"-- J. H. Poincare ";
quoteArray[365] = "\"A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a
love scene. " +
"This talk has two proofs.\"" + "
" + " -- H. Lenstra ";
quoteArray[366] = "\"Golden rule of deriving: never trust any result
that was proved after 11 PM.\"";
quoteArray[367] = "\"Do the math: Count your blessings.\"";
quoteArray[368] = "\"According to my experience, students must know
the mathematics before they can apply it... " +
"they
cannot apply mathematics they do not know. It is
like trying to teach people to play " +
"water polo
before they know how to swim.\"" +
"
" + " -- Frank B. Allen (1988)";
quoteArray[369] = "\"Mathematics is for lazy people.\" " +
"
" + " -- Peter Hilton "
quoteArray[370] = "\"The best mathematical equation I have ever seen:\" " +
"
" + " 1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given."
quoteArray[371] = "\"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[372] = "\"The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit." +
"
" +
" -- C. Jacobi";
quoteArray[373] = "\"Mathematics is the supreme judge;
from its decisions there is no appeal.\"";
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Quotes by and about Mathematicians
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Quotes about Computers
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Quotes about Math and Logic and Knowledge
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Quotes about Mathematics and the World
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Quotes about Math and Science
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Quotes about Math, Beauty, Poetry, and the Arts
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Quotes about Numbers and Arithmetic
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if (i == 226)
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Quotes about Algebra
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if (i == 238)
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Quotes about Geometry
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Quotes about Statistics and Probability
");
if (i == 279)
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Quotes about Calculus and Infinity
");
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Miscellaneous Quotes about Math
");
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