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Quotes of the Day for 28 April 2005 - Math

I almost missed this one, April is Math Education Month. I did alright through geometry, but then I seemed to run into problems. It seems I wasn't alone.

Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.
     - Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955

Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.
     - Calvin Trillin

A lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math. That's why I like them. If we could find a way to tax people who are bad at English, science and history I'd be a happy camper.
     - Dana Blankenhorn

Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe.
     - Douglas Noel Adams, 1952 - 2001

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
     - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 - 1832

Math is like love - a simple idea but it can get complicated.
     - R. Drabek

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