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Quotations
Great Mathematicians
The essence of all things is numbers.
Pythagoras
Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here.
Plato
There are two dangerous extremes. One is to shut reason out, the other
is to let nothing in.
Blaise Pascal
There is no branch of mathematics which may not be applied to the real
world.
Nicolai Lobachevsky
The theory of probability is at bottom only common sense.
Pierre Simon de Laplace
With the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that algebra
is a scientific art.
Omar Khayyam
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than
not to think at all.
Theon to Hypatia
Algebra is but written geometry, and geometry is but written algebra.
Sophie Germain
In mathematics there are no true controversies.
Karl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematics if the queen of the sciences.
Karl Friedrich Gauss
I have the result, but I do not yet know how to get it.
Karl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematics is the pen with which God has written the universe.
Galileo Galilei
The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical
discoveries.
Joseph Fourier
Algebra is generous she often gives more than is asked of her.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
When [ in subtraction ] nothing is left over, then write the little
circle so that the place does not remain empty.
Al-Khwarizmi
Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.
Archimedes
Inspiring
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
Teaching means helping the child realize his potential.
Erich Fromm
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the
dead.
Aristotle
Education is hanging on until you’ve caught on.
Robert Frost
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B.F. Skinner
An educated man thinks for himself.
Alan Simpson
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and
you feed him for a lifetime.
Shinese Proverb
All our children deserve teachers who believe they can learn and who
will not be satisfied until they do.
Joe Nathan
When the pupil is ready, the teacher will come.
Chinese Saying
Teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren
A great teacher makes hard things easy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good teacher, like a good entertainer, first must hold his audience’s
attention. Then he can teach the lesson.
John Henrik Clarke
Who dares to teach must never cease t learn.
John Cotton Dana
A teacher is the child’s third parent.
Hyman Maxwell Berston
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together
and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill Gates
These quotations a just a few of my favorites. If you would like to locate more use the following:
Freeman, C. (1998). The Teacher’s Book of
Wisdom. Nashville:
Walnut Grove Press.
Gangi-Kelly,C., & Patterson, J. (Eds.).
(2001). Celebrating Teachers, A Book of
Appreciation. New York: Metro Books.
Johnson, A. (1994).Classic Math, History
Topics for the Classroom. New York: Dale
Seymour Publications.