Math Quotes · Page 23

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— Mark Z. Danielewski

He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

— Plato

I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

— May Sarton

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

— Bertrand Russell

A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.

— George Polya

I originally went to school for engineering because I loved math and thought I liked science.

— Christina Tosi

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

— Paul Nurse

We are justified in calling numbers a free creation of the human mind.

— Richard Dedekind

What do I like about math? , When I've got figures in front of me, it relaxes me. Kind of like, everything…

— Haruki Murakami

Math is fun, it teaches you life and death information, like when you're cold, you should go to a corner since it's…

— Anonymous

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

— Francis Bacon

I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three…

— James D. Watson

If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can…

— Danica McKellar

I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.

— Keith Devlin

When I was in college, I didn't like physics a lot, and I really wasn't very good at physics. And there were…

— Heidi Hammel

In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time…

— Hugo Rossi

Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which…

— Michio Kaku

I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was…

— Mickey Hart

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the…

— Jordan Ellenberg

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come…

— Blaise Pascal

I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space'. Now…

— Kato

He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.

— Anonymous

The solution "cost me study that robbed me of rest for an entire night."

— Johann Bernoulli

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

— Aristotle

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

— Richard Preston

I'm no quitter, unless it comes to human relationships or math and science.

— Dov Davidoff

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

— Paul Halmos

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

— Albert Einstein

Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.

— Alan Cohen

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

— Archimedes

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

— Pliny the Elder

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

— William Standish Knowles

...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.

— John G. Kemeny

Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer.

— Richard Ernst

I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21.

— Rita Rudner

What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice.

— George Polya

Life is a math problem¦sometimes we have to forget about it!

— Anonymous