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| Daily Quotes |
| 36. |
"It's never wrong to do the right thing."
- Mark Twain
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| 37. |
"Some people study all their life, and at their death have learned everything but to think."
- Francois Domergue
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| 38. |
"A learned man is an idler who kills time by study."
- George Bernard Shaw
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| 39. |
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
- B. F. Skinner
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| 40. |
"Not everything that counts can be counted. Not everything that can be counted counts."
- Albert Einstein
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| 41. |
"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only on e bad one to lose it."
- Benjamin Franklin
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| 42. |
"Q.E.D. (Quod Erat Demonstrandum: Which was to be proven)"
- Euclid
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| 43. |
"To Teach is to learn."
- Unknown
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| 44. |
"Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable."
- Norman Cousins
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| 45. |
"Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself."
- Plato
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| 46. |
"Major paradoxes provide food for logical thought for decades and sometimes centuries."
- Nicholas Bourbaki
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| 47. |
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
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| 48. |
"Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation."
- Paul Halmos
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| 49. |
"The universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics"
- Galilei Galileo
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| 50. |
"Mathematics is the science of what is clear by itself."
- Carl Jacobi
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| 51. |
"Genius is one percent inspiration ninety-nine percent perspiration."
- Thomas Alva Edison
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| 52. |
"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."
- Confucius
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| 53. |
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbably, must be the truth?"
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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| 54. |
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
- Albert Einstein
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| 55. |
"What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics."
- Benjamin Franklin
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| 56. |
"Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things."
- Jules Henri Poincare
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| 57. |
"The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds."
- John F. Kennedy
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| 58. |
"Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of the truth, but in the search for it."
- Tolstoy
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| 59. |
"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand."
- American Indian Proverb
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| 60. |
"Questions are creative acts of intelligence."
- Frank Kingdon-Ward
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| 61. |
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
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| 62. |
"Mathematics is the gate and key to the sciences."
- Roger Bacon
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| 63. |
"Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward."
- Unknown
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| 64. |
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
- Andre Gide
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| 65. |
"From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery."
- Alfred North Whitehead
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| 66. |
"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."
- Linus Pauling
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| 67. |
"It is truth very certain that, when it is not in one's power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is more probable."
- René Descartes
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| 68. |
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
- Malcolm Forbes
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| 69. |
"All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics."
- Martin Gardner
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| 70. |
"The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple."
- S. Gudder
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