Mark Twain Quotes, Math Quotes, Science Quotes

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

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A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

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Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

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The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them.

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What's all this whining about the environment? They're always talking about 'stop the clearcuts.' I mean do the math people. If we were out of trees then we wouldn't have any clearcuts to be complaining about now would we?

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A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

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Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

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I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.

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[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

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Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

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I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

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One can't believe impossible things.

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Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.

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Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

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To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

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