Plato Quotes

Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

To solve math problems, you need to know the basic mathematics before you can start applying it.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

My students may have dexterity with the equations they're required to know, but they lack the capacity to apply their knowledge to real-life problems. This critical shortcoming appears in high school and possibly in elementary grades - long before college.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded on analysis and on synthesis and on the calculus; it does not occupy itself with the probable truth; moreover it has the same method in every country.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

I think I have the special ability to process information quickly and dissect defenses.

I would say out of all the things I studied growing up, math was probably one of the things that I liked the least.

I was a bum at school. I never liked learning, and stupid ideas used to come to mind.

I can see that, without being excited, mathematics can look pointless and cold.

An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.