And I'll go even further and say that mathematics, this art of abstract pattern-making – even more than storytelling, painting, or music - is our most quintessentially human art form. This is what our brains do, whether we like it or not. We are biochemical pattern-recognition machines and mathematics is nothing less than the distilled essence of who we are. Paul Lockhart
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same...
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Baruch Spinoza
If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.
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Neal Stephenson
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.
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Brian Greene
The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.
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G.k. Chesterton
This is the team. We're trying to go to the moon. If you can't put someone up, please don't put them down.
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NASA
More Quotes By Paul Lockhart
If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information and not creators of new ideas, what hope is there for their students?
Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplestpossible things are imaginary.
I don't see how it's doing society any good to have it's members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams, and clear memories of hating them.
And I'll go even further and say that mathematics, this art of abstract pattern-making – even more than storytelling, painting, or music - is our most quintessentially human art form. This is what our brains do, whether we like it or not. We are biochemical...
