Mathematics Quotes · Page 54

“Mom was a math teacher, but reading was her great love”

— John Green

“The Elements is arguably the most influential mathematical text in history.”

— Amir Alexander

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.

— Paul Signac

I didnt fail math. I just found a lot of ways not to do it

— Bubbly

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Algebra is one of those subjects you either get or you don’t.”

— Huston Piner

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

— Charles Darwin

In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the…

— Jon Elster

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for…

— Johannes Kepler

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

— Daniel Tammet

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

— Carl Sandburg

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

— Jacob Appelbaum

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

— Walter Pater

“I am a mathematician and I can confidently say that the best figure ever produced is your phone number.”

— Amit Kalantri

The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to…

— Paul Halmos

“Golden Ratio is a powerful mathematical constant woven into the very fabric of biology. It is the unique visual tension between comforting…

— Darrin Crescenzi

“The black female mathematicians who walked into Langley in 1943 would find themselves at the intersection of these great transformations, their sharp…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with…

— Keith Devlin

Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license…

— Richard P. Feynman

“In this moment I’m reminded of Thor tutoring me math in the second grade. Thor was a math major in college, and…

— Jarod Kintz

No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the…

— Michael Atiyah

But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music.…

— Edward Witten

For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.

— Rachel Hartman

Whenever my number is called, I'll be ready always.

— Markieff Morris

Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I was on the math team, and I was on the soccer team.

— Sydney Sweeney

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful?

— Aprilynne Pike

The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.

— Hans Rosling

I think some intuition leaks out in every step of an induction proof.

— Jim Propp

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

— Thomas Carlyle

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

— Plato

“I’ve wondered if I could take my computer programming skills and apply them to learning math.”

— Anonymous

I was bored in maths 2day and I decided 2 draw a pic of my maths teacher LOL1 xxxx

— Shaniaacannon

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

— Galileo Galilei

Baby your like a student and I am like a math book, you solve all my problems.

— Anonymous

I enjoy working on a number of projects - books - at once.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

— Albert Einstein