Mathematics Quotes · Page 29

Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it.

— Simeon Denis Poisson

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.

— John B. S. Haldane

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

— Claude Fayette Bragdon

My math book committed suicide, he had too many problems.: D

— Arjun Loveable

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.

— Freeman Dyson

No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.

— Richard Kadrey

I always say that intuition is the number one tool for an artist.

— David Lynch

I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.

— Charlie Simpson

Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do…

— Elayne Boosler

The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester.

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

Success in life is not about the number of crowns you have, but the number of successors you have helped to succeed

— Mercy Pheona

! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.

— Tan Le

“Once you found the math in a thing, you knew everything about it, and you could manipulate it to your heart’s content…

— Neal Stephenson

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in…

— Ron Eglash

But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial.

— Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

Primes seem to me to be these unarbitrary, unique, fated things. It cannot be coincidence that the mythical numbers of storytelling like…

— Robin Sloan

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of…

— Alfred North Whitehead

It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules.…

— Jean-Pierre Serre

In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something practical…

— Paul Lockhart

The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The 'economy of number' proposed by Peano is an economy of signs whose paradigm is algebraic, whose transparency is consensual, and whose…

— Alain Badiou

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there…

— Stephen Hawking

The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the…

— Felix Klein

I don't have the time. It would take me too long to go through all of the math.

— Paul Ryan

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

— Hermann Weyl

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

— George Bernard Shaw

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

— Rich Lowry

That's not really a number I'm terribly interested in.

— Colin Powell

I was married to the number one douchebag of all time.

— Brandi Glanville

There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.

— Noga Alon

Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.

— Jennifer Tour Chayes

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

— Thomas de Quincey

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

— Cokie Roberts

The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

— John Jewel

The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.

— David Mumford

A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.

— John Donne

God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man

— Leopold Kronecker

[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

— Carl Sagan