Math Quotes · Page 21

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 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

I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I…

— Natasha Bedingfield

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

— William Joyce

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but…

— Alan Shepard

[As a young teenager] Galois read [Legendre's] geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

— Eric Temple Bell

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math…

— Bill Gates

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within…

— Charley Reese

Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is…

— Gregory Maguire

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in…

— Antony Garrett Lisi

He rolled his eyes. "First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like…

— Kelley Armstrong

Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a…

— Tom Waits

“It is to geometry that we owe in some sort the source of this discovery [of beryllium]; it is that [science] that…

— Antoine-François De Fourcroy

To teach effectively a teacher must develop a feeling for his subject; he cannot make his students sense its vitality if he…

— George Polya

Mathematics is one of the surest ways for a man to feel the power of thought and the magic of the spirit.…

— Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza

“Colours, sounds, words and actions are all imbued with specific emotions, subjectively for each experience. It's therefor a great sorrow that the…

— Monaristw

The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and…

— Oswald Spengler

“I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean - have…

— Rick Riordan

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

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

— Plato

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

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

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

— Gerrit Cole

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

— Arthur Eddington

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

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.

— Liam Neeson

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

— Randall Munroe

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

— James Joseph Sylvester