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  • Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

    Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”
  • The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

    "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 172), 1973.
  • I had accepted a job being a math teacher for Teach For America. So, that's what I would have done at least in the two years after I graduated.

    Teacher   Jobs   Math  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

    Mom   Teacher   Math  
  • Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

    Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.357, Bantam
  • I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

    Calvin Trillin (1988). “If you can't say something nice”, Penguin Group USA
  • Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

    Teaching   Math   Science  
    "Obituary for Emmy Noether". Letter to the Editor of The New York Times, www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. May 5, 1935.
  • A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

    Math   Poet   Mathematics  
  • I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.

    Teacher   School   Math  
  • A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field.

  • A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

    Quoted in John D Barrow Pie in the Sky, Counting, Thinking and Being (1992).
  • I was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken when my math teacher said, "You're failing in school, you're messing up, why don't you just try this?" I said, "Alright, let me try it," and I started going to acting classes and I loved it. I thought, "I may not make it but I love doing it."

    Teacher   School   Math  
    Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.
  • 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 Richard Halmos (1983). “Selecta: expository writing”, Springer Verlag
  • Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

  • 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.

    Teacher   Math   People  
    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • This will sound like I grew up on another planet, except for those people who are past 55, 60 maybe. When I was growing up, my mother and her generation basically felt that you should only work as a way of passing time until you got married and had at least two children. And the only careers that were open for women at the time was teacher or nurse - which are fantastic careers, I mean fantastic and I actually am a former math teacher.

    Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
  • I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

    Teacher   School   Math  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

    Math   Science   Men  
    John G. Kemeny (1964). “Random Essays on Mathematics, Education, and Computers”
  • One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

    Philip J. Davis, William G. Chinn (1985). “3.1416 and all that”, Birkhauser
  • In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

  • 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.

    Math   Science   Eight  
    Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.8549, Delphi Classics
  • 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.

    Teacher   Fall   Teaching  
  • Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

    Math   Science   Culture  
  • I think I was born 'in to deep,' and bad things happen every day. Sometimes I have to stab hellions. Sometimes I have to frame friends for murder, and stab evil math teachers, and watch my best friend die. Again. We deal with it, then we move on.

    Teacher   Moving   Math  
  • In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

  • Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

    Fun   Math   Science  
  • If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember there was a primary school teacher who really woke me up to the joys of school for about one year when I was ten. He made me interested in things I would otherwise not have been interested in - because he was a brilliant teacher. He was instrumental in making me think learning was quite exciting.

    Teacher   School   Math  
    "St Trinian's - Colin Firth interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

  • The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

    H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.248, Cosimo, Inc.
  • To teach effectively a teacher must develop a feeling for his subject; he cannot make his students sense its vitality if he does not sense it himself. He cannot share his enthusiasm when he has no enthusiasm to share. How he makes his point may be as important as the point he makes; he must personally feel it to be important.

    Teacher   Teaching   Math  
    George Pólya, Leon Bowden (1977). “Mathematical Methods in Science”, p.1, Cambridge University Press
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