Jacques Clouseau & Dan Cunningham
Ph.D. in Mathematics Professors of Mathematics SUNY Buffalo State
Jacques Clouseau & Dan Cunningham
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How can such an idiot be a mathematics professor? |
– Chief Professor Dreyfus |
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. |
– Bertand Russell
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity; however, I'm still not sure about the universe. |
– Albert Einstein |
| The folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a
torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and
oneself as an oracle, is inborn in us. |
– Ray Bradbury quoting Paul Vale'ry |
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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| Those who know, do. Those who understand,
teach. |
– Aristotle |
| In the course of time I have come to
accept this viewpoint as the didactically sound one:
before going into esoteric niceties one should develop a
certain feeling for the subject and obtain a reasonable
amount of plain working knowledge. |
– Dirk van Dalen |
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. |
– Daniel J. Boorstin |
Well done is better than well said. |
– Benjamin Franklin |
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, in its way, the
poetry of logical ideas. |
– Albert Einstein |
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, J |
| It doesn’t matter to which God you pray. Precious
time is slipping away. |
– Van Morrison |
| Religion is regarded by the common people
as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as
useful. |
– Seneca |
| The difference between treason and
patriotism is only a matter of dates. |
– Alexandre Dumas |
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. (1992 Republican Convention) |
– Pat Robertson |
| On the subject of Pat Buchanan’s famously combative
“culture war speech” at the 1992 Republican Convention,
which attracted controversy over Buchanan’s aggressive
rhetoric against Bill Clinton, liberals, supporters of
reproductive and gay rights, and for his comparison of
American politics to religious warfare, Molly Ivins
famously quipped that the speech had “probably sounded
better in the original German.” |
– Molly
Ivins
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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 |
| Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. | – H. L. Mencken |
| The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. | – H. L. Mencken |
| Our enemies are innovative and resourceful
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and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways
to harm our country and our people – and neither do we. You're working hard to put food on your family. I want you to know. Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me. |
– George W. Bush – George W. Bush – George W. Bush |
... the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. |
– Leonard Cohen |
| There is a crack in everything. That’s how
the light gets in. |
– Leonard Cohen |
| They will never find a cure for love. |
– 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.
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– Jay Leno |