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The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.
Oct 2, 2025
I always like a good math solution to any love problem.
I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.
A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.
The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.
When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.
Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.
I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.
Mathematics is the gate and key to science.
Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else - but persistent.
Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.
Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.
Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.
The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.
The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I do not myself think the danger is serious; either a reasonable amount of concentration leads to new ideas or methods of obvious interest, or else one just leaves the problem alone. "Perfect numbers" certainly never did any good, but then they never did any particular harm.
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
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