Jacques
Clouseau & Dan
Cunningham
Ph.D. in Mathematics Associate Professors of Mathematics Buffalo State College
Jacques
Clouseau & Dan
Cunningham
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How can such an idiot be a mathematics professor? |
– Chief Professor Dreyfus |
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity; however, I'm still not sure about the universe. |
– Albert Einstein |
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. |
– Bertrand Russell |
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. |
– Seneca
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. |
– Daniel J. Boorstin |
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us
worthy evidence of the fact.
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– George Eliot |
Gott hat die Zahlen gemacht, alles andere ist
Menschenwerk.
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– Leopold Kronecker |
Computers are important, but not to mathematics. |
– Paul Halmos |
I understand mathematics; I just cannot do proofs. |
– Anonymous |
Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians
for
mathematics.
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– Augustus de Morgan |
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics. |
– G. H. Hardy |
There is no God more devine than yourself. |
– Walt Whitman |
Peace is not merely the absence of war, but the presence of justice. |
– Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. (1992 Republican Convention) |
– Pat Robertson |
As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. |
– H.L. Mencken |
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful – and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people – and neither do we. |
– George W. Bush |
... the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. |
– Leonard Cohen |
All I want is the truth, just give me some truth. |
– John Lennon |
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. |
– Bertrand Russell |
Bush admitted that his pre-war intelligence wasn't
what it should have
been. We knew that when we elected him!
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– Jay Leno |
As you know President Bush gave his State of the Union Address, interrupted 70 times by applause and 45 times by really big words. |
– Jay Leno |