#thematic

Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles? ↗

— Paul Lockhart

#learning #math #mathematics #art

The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#poetry #poets

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#christian #education #god #mathematicians #mathematics

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#gaede #god #mathematics #peer-review #physics

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. ↗

— Andy Richter

#born #brain #jazz #jazz musician #magical

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums. ↗

— David Bowie

#any #behind #concept #heathen #however

You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics. ↗

— Mos Def

#how #know #learn #mathematics #rhyme

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. ↗

— Izaak Walton

#fully #learned #like #mathematics #may

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it. ↗

— Andre Weil

#consistent #devil #exists #god #mathematics

Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men. ↗