| If you don't read poetry how the hell can you solve equations? | |
| Harvey Jackins, quoted in Exploring Elementary Mathematics: a Small Group Approach for Teaching, by Julian Weisglass. | 184 |
| One person with courage makes a majority. | |
| Andrew Jackson, | 795 |
| America is not like a blanket -- one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt -- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread. | |
| Jesse Jackson, | 1040 |
| The man with courage is a majority. | |
| Andrew Jackson, quoted in Wisdom for the New Millennium edited by Helen Exley. | 1070 |
| It is true that Fourier had the opinion that the principal object of mathematics was public use and the explanation of natural phenomena; but a philosopher like him ought to know that the sole object of the science is the honor of the human spirit and that under this view a problem of [the theory of] numbers is worth as much as a problem on the system of the world. | |
| C.G.J. Jacobi, quoted in Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times by Morris Kline | 902 |
| All the pictures which science now draws of nature and which alone seem capable of according with observational fact are mathematical pictures... From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. | |
| Sir James Hopwood Jeans, quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. | 185 |
| Every generation needs a new revolution. | |
| Thomas Jefferson, | 1061 |
| State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules. | |
| Thomas Jefferson, quoted in A Teacher's Treasury of Quotations, by Bernard E. Farber. | 186 |
| Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science. ...in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science. | |
| W. S. Jevons, | 187 |
| It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because it deals with quantities... As the complete theory of almost every other science involves the use of calculus, so we cannot have a true theory of Economics without its aid. | |
| W. S. Jevons, quoted in The World of Mathematics, by J.R. Newman. | 188 |
| For example is not a proof. | |
| Jewish proverb, | 897 |
| I am not afraid... I was born to do this. | |
| Joan of Arc, | 1009 |
| Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. | |
| Samuel Johnson, | 189 |
| What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. | |
| Samuel Johnson, quoted in A Primer of Mathematical Writing by Steven G. Krantz. | 738 |
| A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good. | |
| Barbara Jordan, | 835 |
| We have to reinvent the wheel every once in a while, not because we need a lot of wheels; but because we need a lot of inventors. | |
| Bruce Joyce, quoted in Discovering Geometry, by M. Serra. | 190 |
| A man's errors are his portals of discovery. | |
| James Joyce, | 977 |
| I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. | |
| James Joyce, | 986 |
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