Explanations Math Quotes

#1. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States.

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries.

Tim O'Brien

#3. You probably think I'm just a hysterical woman who would be better off home doing woman's work."
"We're in the state that was the first to give women the right to vote. I'm not about to tell you what a woman's work should be," I said...

Hunter Shea

#4. If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it.

Jerry Adler

#5. For all live births, the mean pregnancy length is 38.6 weeks, the standard deviation is 2.7 weeks, which means we should expect deviations of 2-3 weeks to be common.

Allen B. Downey

#6. Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

Albert Einstein

#7. Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#8. To negotiate is not to do as one likes.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#9. A positive mindset is probably the single most powerful elixir you can take for your health.

Charles F. Glassman

#10. Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

Paul Lockhart

#11. Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.

Ralph P. Boas Jr.

#12. Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

Henry Lawson

#13. What I am is constantly thrust into my face while I'm trying to be better than I am. Even if I'm actively doing all the right things, I can't escape the fact that my internal reactions are those of a fundamentally horrible person.

Allie Brosh