Pi Day Inspirational Quotes From 25 Mathematicians
Pi Day Inspirational Quotes From 25 Mathematicians – The first Pi Day celebrations took place at the Exploratorium (Shaw’s work site), an interactive science museum in San Francisco, and featured a circular parade and fruit pie eating demonstrations. The celebration has grown every year, and now includes webcasts and a virtual party in Second Life (an online virtual world). It was not until 2009, however, that it became an official national holiday when the US House of Representatives passed legislation.
1.“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” – Isaac Newton
2.“Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.” – Ada Lovelace
3.“Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.” – Katherine Johnson
4.“Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.” – Charles Babbage
5.“The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians have never decided whether they should feel excited or upset by such events.” – Gian-Carlo Rota
6.“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers,
7.ignorant generals — the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.” – Martin Gardner
8.“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power
9.of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.” – Ada Lovelace
10.“‘Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.’” – Lewis Carroll
11.“Mathematicians are like managers – they want improvement without change.” – Edsger Dijkstra
12.“A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things.” – Grace Hopper
13.“On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” – Charles Babbage
14.“In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.” – Blaise Pascal
15.“In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.” – Stephen Hawking
16.Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.” – Sofia Kovalevskaya
17.“Mathematicians stand on each other’s shoulders.” – Carl Friedrich Gauss
18.“What is imagination?…It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.” – Ada Lovelace
19.“You are no better than anyone else, and nobody else is better than you.” – Katherine Johnson
20.“Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.” – Blaise Pascal
21.“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” – Albert Einstein
22.“It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.” – Grace Hopper
23.“Mathematicians aren’t satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.” – Andrew Wiles
24.“The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful.” – Henri Poincaré
