Mathematics Quotes · Page 47

log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.

— Daniel Shanks

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

— Anonymous

Squaring numbers are just like women. If they're under thirteen, just do them in your head.

— Bo Burnham

Message me if you want my number cause I'm looking for that one

— Ali Fletter

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

— Henry A. Kissinger

'Algebra' roughly translates to 'the system for reconciling disparate parts.'

— Terry Moore

Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

— Hermann Weyl

“All prime numbers are one more or less than a multiple of 6.”

— Matt Parker

Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that…

— Jacques Hadamard

Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment!

— Gregory Chaitin

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave…

— Robert Musil

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound…

— Chris Stein

History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I…

— Stephenie Meyer

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

— Angus Deaton

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of…

— James Joseph Sylvester

I'm not exactly a maths genius - I'm really good at maths, maths was my favorite subject in school, but I wasn't…

— Matt Dallas

We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight…

— Arthur Koestler

We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that…

— Paul Davies

Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in…

— Steve Jobs

What promotes math progress even more than new ideas are new technical tools and habits of thought that encapsulate existing ideas, so…

— Jim Propp

In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we…

— W. W. Sawyer

Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“Donald Saari uses a combination of stories and questions to challenge students to think critically about calculus. “When I finish this process,”…

— Ken Bain

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“people can feel the math behind things, especially, thankfully, moms.”

— Christian Rudder

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

— Jean Piaget

You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!

— John Taylor Gatto

The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.

— Paul Halmos

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

— Stefan Banach

“If you cannot trust people - trust numbers. Even if they look unbelievable - they never lie.”

— Thomas Vato

I am number one in the world, so I have the right to be arrogant

— Martina Hingis

Imagine that the blackboard is an N-dimensional manifold.

— Hal Varian

I love math! Math is always cool, because it makes sense.

— Nick Cannon

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

— Roger Bacon

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“There is geometry in the humming of the string.”

— Pythagoras

“Plato found mathematics very absorbing because mathematical states never change.”

— Jostein Gaarder

Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.

— Ronald Graham

To the guy who created imaginary numbers in Math: I hate you.

— Anonymous