Math Quotes · Page 12

When I was growing up, I wanted passionately to be a physicist.

— Eileen Pollack

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Are we going to do any thinking today, or is it going to be all math?

— Philip J. Hanlon

I love it when you have an epiphany and suddenly get how to do a math problem.

— Anonymous

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

— Gregory Bateson

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

— Karl Weierstrass

When you're concentrating hard, hours can fly by, and it's just you and a math problem.

— Terence Tao

There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.

— George Polya

I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software…

— Shane Carruth

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

— John Locke

I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D.…

— Alastair Reynolds

The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people…

— G. H. Hardy

Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke

— P. J. O'Rourke

I love mathematics...principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given…

— Rozsa Peter

I was a bit of an introvert growing up, and I tended to do better in math and science at school, so…

— Keahu Kahuanui

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it…

— Blaise Pascal

The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus,…

— Marshall A. Cohen

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it…

— Chris Bosh

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn…

— George Lucas

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores…

— Thad Cochran

My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four…

— Stephenie Meyer

Seeing and playing with physical objects can enable access to symbolic ideas. When I studied physics and math at university it was…

— Margaret Wertheim

Logic leaves us no choice. In that sense, math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their…

— Steven Strogatz

Elementary and high school students will still be tested under the new law. There just won't be so much riding on the…

— Elizabeth Blair Lee

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

— Niall Ferguson

You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new.

— Clifford Truesdell

I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.

— George E. Brown, Jr

Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world

— Eric Thomas

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.

— Norbert Wiener

Only in math can you buy sixty cantaloupes and no one asks what the hell is wrong with you.

— Charles M. Schulz

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

— William Standish Knowles

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

— Thomas Huxley

I'm very good at reading people - and very bad at math.

— Alex Sharp

I struggled with math and had no interest in sports.

— Kim Brooks

Growing up in Hampton, the face of science was brown like mine.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“I've sort of been slacking off in my voodoo studies.I've trigonometry, you know?”

— Kendare Blake

I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.

— Pauley Perrette

In Math class we learned more about algebra today, such as X+10=Y should I care? @_@

— Melchor Lim

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

— Isaac Asimov