Martin Gardner Quotes

#1. Success is born out of faith, an undying passion, and a relentless drive.

Stephen Curry

#2. Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

Martin Gardner

#3. The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse.

Martin Gardner

#4. If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?

Martin Gardner

#5. Her nerves licked her palms.

Markus Zusak

#6. A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.

Martin Gardner

#7. [T]he more the public is confused, the easier it falls prey to doctrines of pseudo-science which may at some future date recieve the backing of politically powerful groups [ ... ]a renaissance of German quasi-science paralleled the rise of Hitler.

Martin Gardner

#8. The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.

Martin Gardner

#9. 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.

Martin Gardner

#10. In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.

Martin Gardner

#11. The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.

Martin Gardner

#12. There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Martin Gardner

#13. Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

Martin Gardner

#14. University of Chicago is a Baptist school, where atheist professors teach Jewish students about St. Thomas Aquinas.

Martin Gardner

#15. The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

Martin Gardner

#16. We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains

Martin Gardner

#17. We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.

Serj Tankian

#18. Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

Martin Gardner

#19. In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

Martin Gardner

#20. If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though there would be no one around to write or talk about them. Huge prime numbers would continue to be prime, even if no one had proved them prime.

Martin Gardner

#21. All mathematicians share ... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

Martin Gardner

#22. The Rail Fence Cipher Suppose

Martin Gardner

#23. LEWIS CARROLL'S CIPHER

Martin Gardner

#24. One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater depths of mystery
and more totally useless
than the perfect numbers.

Martin Gardner

#25. And Sleep will not lie down, but walks
Wild-eyed and cries to Time.

Oscar Wilde

#26. Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change

50 Cent

#27. Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it.

Martin Gardner

#28. Let us hope that Lysenko's success in Russia will serve for many generations to come as another reminder to the world of how quickly and easily a science can be corrupted when ignorant political leaders deem themselves competent to arbitrate scientific disputes.

Martin Gardner

#29. Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle. One takes comfort from the fact there is no Gresham's laws in science. In the long run, good science drives out bad.

Martin Gardner

#30. Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.

David Prowse