Richard Dawkins Quotes

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

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

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

I think math is exciting, you know.

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

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

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don't have an intuitive feeling for equations.

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

if you do not appreciate the mathematics, you cannot see, among the great variety of facts, that logic permits you to go from one to the other

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

I can do some of the number puzzles.

Growing up in Highland Park, in high school, I had some very influential teachers: I had a math teacher who taught calculus that helped me learn to be in love with mathematics; I had a chemistry teacher who inspired us to work what was in the class and to go beyond.

I like science and mathematics. When I say mathematics, I don't mean algebra or math in that sense, but the mathematics of things.