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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

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.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

America ranks 21st when it comes to math education. We rank 25th when it comes to science. We used to be number one in the proportion of college graduates. We now rank ninth. And at an age where knowledge, skills, are the determinant of how successful we’re going to be, unless we reverse that we’re going to keep slipping behind economically to a lot of other countries.

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

I was x years old in the year x2.

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.

A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can only specialise is like a monkey who can only climb down a tree. In fact neither the up monkey nor the down monkey is a viable creature. A real monkey must find food and escape his enemies and so must be able to incessantly climb up and down. A real mathematician must be able to generalise and specialise.

To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.

Nature’s great book is written in mathematics.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s, must be beautiful.

A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

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.

I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician’s finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.