Mathematics Quotes · Page 34

There's no reason for men to be better at maths than women - it's just about our perception.

— Rachel Riley

“Too much math and science isn't nourishing to the soul.”

— Brodi Ashton

“(When God said, “Be fruitful and multiply” [Genesis 1:28], he wasn’t giving math homework.)”

— Gregory K. Popcak

“hyper-geometric Arithmetic —Oddition, Extraction, Uglification, and Excision.” “I”

— Kent David Kelly

You'll get one number and one number only, 'cause I'm a lazy bastard!

— John Lydon

You can’t hide secrets from the future with math.

— MC Frontalot

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

— Plato

“Mathematics should be studied if only for that it puts the mind in order.”

— Mikhail Lomonosov

A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.

— James Joseph Sylvester

“4.23..If 'thought' means: instance of the subject in a truth-procedure, then there is no thought of this thought, because it contains no…

— Alain Badiou

“The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful…

— Robert Turnbull

I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I…

— Bill Gates

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher…

— C. V. Wedgwood

As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which…

— Paul Dirac

Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.

— Ogyu Sorai

“Ask your brain to do math every day, and it gets better at math. Ask your brain to worry, and it gets…

— Kelly McGonigal

To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive…

— Mark Kac

All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic…

— Vladimir Arnold

The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to…

— Johann Bernoulli

Until now, physical theories have been regarded as merely models with approximately describe the reality of nature. As the models improve, so…

— Paul Davies

Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians…

— Stephen Jay Gould

In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to…

— John Edensor Littlewood

That one feeling you get when you understand something in Math.

— Anonymous

“Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.”

— John Twelve Hawks

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

— Joseph Fourier

Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, I'm perfect.

— Judah Friedlander

He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.

— Niels Henrik Abel

And then Satan said mix in the alphabet with math... >.

— Chris

The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

— Bertrand Russell

“You can't fix people like you can solve a math problem.”

— Wendy Brant

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number.

— Gerald Jay Sussman

It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists.

— Paul Halmos

Being the best is great, I'm number one. But being unique is greater, I'm the only one.

— Anonymous

I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

— Asghar Farhadi

Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.

— Kenneth Appel

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it

— Anonymous

Dear math, I don't want to solve your problems I have my own.

— Anonymous