Math Quotes · Page 13

Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.

— Rene Descartes

He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.

— Confucius

We'll only use as much category theory as is necessary. Famous last words...

— Roman Abramovich

Conservatives have to be more than just Liberals who are good at math.

— Andrew Scheer

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I've always liked all the sciences, like math, physics and biology.

— Sigrid Agren

Numerical precision is the very soul of science.

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.

— John Stuart Mill

I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines:…

— Oleg Deripaska

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The…

— Leo Tolstoy

Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot…

— Rodney Mullen

Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.

— AnnaLynne McCord

Sex is like math you add the bed subtract the cloths divide your legs and pray you wont multiply!!!!

— Anonymous

The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.

— Henri Lebesgue

“The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken…

— Saint Augustine

“You’re probably better at math than I am, because pretty much everyone’s better at math than I am, but it’s okay, I’m…

— Jennifer Niven

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and…

— John Banville

Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his…

— James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast.…

— Ira Glass

In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should…

— Barack Obama

Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain;…

— Aldous Huxley

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

— Isaac Asimov

When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

— Michio Kaku

I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

— Albert Einstein

There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.

— Thomas Hobbes

Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.

— Steven Wright

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

— Morris Kline

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

— Danica McKellar

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

— A. N. Wilson

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

— Nathan Lane

Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers.

— Kato

What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.

— Mike Birbiglia

We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

— Dan Meyer

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

— Linda M. Godwin

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

— Paul Halmos

What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns...

— Lynn Steen

I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.

— Meg Cabot