Quotes by Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner

[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.

Confused

Fall

Powerful

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.

Adjusting

Order

Religion

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

Beautiful

Education

Musician

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

Depth

Math

Teaching

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.

Children

Hunting

Reading

As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.

Science

Two

Writing

As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap. Are there mathematical proofs of God? Who are the great mathematicians who believed in a deity? Does numerology lead anywhere when applied to sacred literature? Pickover covers these and many other off-trail topics with his usual verve, humor, and clarity. And along the way the reader will learn a great deal of serious mathematics.

Book

Math

Writing

As I have often said, electrons and gerbils don’t cheat. People do.

Cheat

People

Said

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

Kings

Queens

Teaching

Consider a cow. A cow doesn’t have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of the ground by putting a stick into a hole. Evolution has developed the brain’s ability to solve puzzles, and at the same time has produced in our brain a pleasure of solving problems.

Brain

Science

Skills

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Abuse

Adjusting

Adults

Answers

Atheism

Beautiful

Behinds

Believe

Book

Brain

Breeding

Cat

Cheat

Children

Chips

Choices

Computer

Confused

Country

Crazy

Creative

Dancing

Depth

Design

Differences

Doe

Dull

Education

Energy

Entertainment

Fall

Games

Geometry

Growing

Heart

Humility

Hunting

Ignorance

Jesus

Justice

Kings

Lasts

Law

Lenses

Levels

Long

Lying

Magic

Math

Mathematician

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Quotes by Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner

[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.

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.

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

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

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.

As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.

As I have often said, electrons and gerbils don’t cheat. People do.

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