Math Quotes · Page 11

Math was my favorite subject, and English was my worst.

— Rob Gronkowski

A great deal more is known than has been proved.

— Richard P. Feynman

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

— Abraham Flexner

God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man.

— Leopold Kronecker

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

— Jayma Mays

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

— Arthur Eddington

I certainly wouldn't pay for a ticket to watch a math equation.

— Gerrit Cole

The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

— Plato

I think that smart is sexy, and driven is sexy, and passion is sexy, and if you're passionate about math, so be…

— Jonathan Slavin

One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.

— Lisa Randall

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been…

— Alfred Adler

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of…

— David Blaine

The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are…

— Marcus du Sautoy

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.

— Pierre de Fermat

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

— Martin Gardner

By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who…

— William J. Clinton

In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble.…

— Frank Wilczek

My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering…

— Colin Powell

In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and,…

— Gottfried Leibniz

“Music was not so very different from mathematics. It was all just patterns and sequences. The only difference was that they hung…

— Julia Quinn

When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine,…

— Rachel Vincent

In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to…

— Johann Bernoulli

There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

— Aristotle

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.

— Dorothy Hodgkin

“He doesn't seem to mind at all that he's stupid about math.”

— Wendy Lichtman

I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

— Jaime Escalante

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

— Anonymous

Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.

— Henry John Stephen Smith

Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid.

— Larry Ellison

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam,

— Charles Babbage

“The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.”

— Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

— Blaise Pascal

I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.

— George Polya

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

— Alexandre Dumas

It is the story that matters not just the ending.

— Paul Lockhart

I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.

— Butch Trucks

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

— Hermann Weyl