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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:

Mathematical Quotations

     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.

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