Mathematics Quotes · Page 35

If you don't treat yourself like number one then others will treat you like number two.

— Michael Travis

Of course it was always a friendly debate though sometimes I got too loud.

— Lawrence Shepp

That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.

— Imre Lakatos

“Calculus was not math. It was a fucking science experiment gone wrong.”

— Abbi Glines

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math.

— Daniel Pinkwater

A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.

— Irving Langmuir

Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the…

— Paul Lockhart

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the…

— Rudolph A. Marcus

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

— Stephen Hawking

Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

— Vladimir Arnold

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each…

— Hermann Hankel

I think one nice thing about mathematics is that we don't really have one prize that dominates all the others, like the…

— Terence Tao

Very early on there were the girls who were good at singing, at the arts, or mathematics or languages, and I wasn't…

— Geraldine James

Dear math , I liked you a whole lot more before you and the alphabet started hooking up Sincerely, All students.

— Xuan Ta

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it…

— Chris Bosh

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn…

— George Lucas

A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those…

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing…

— John Steinbeck

Logic leaves us no choice. In that sense, math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their…

— Steven Strogatz

“With the invention of the fractals, what was once unrecognizable became recognized, and what was vague became distinguishable even in plain graphics. …

— Tim Clearbrook

Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as…

— Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

“Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to…

— Yoko Ogawa

“Let no one destitute of Geometry enter my doors.”

— Plato

“A dog doesn’t understand mathematics, but that doesn’t mean mathematics doesn’t exist.”

— Sean Chercover

Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

— Norman Cousins

Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

— Kenneth Appel

Strength of character can defeat strength in numbers.

— Anonymous

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

— Agnes Denes

I was fine with numbers, but it took me a longer time to grasp simple things like spellings.

— James William Middleton

“I would think of a quote, but I have to do my math homework”

— Benjamin Wang

When Serena is number one, its hard to think of being number one.

— Simona Halep

Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.

— Audrey MacLean

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

— George Polya

Hmm. I'm still not very good at algebra. I just can't figure out Y.

— Anonymous

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

— Charles Francis Richter

Sex is like maths, subtract clothes add bed divied legs and pray you don't multiply :D

— Anonymous

It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.

— Duke Ellington