Mathematics Quotes · Page 63

Mathematics are one of the fundamentaries of educationalizing our youth.

— George W. Bush

Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

— Charlotte Moss

It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.

— George Polya

My husband is like Math, can't be contradicted. By-rN

— Rahul

I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.

— Erno Rubik

André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil.

— Jordan Ellenberg

“I think there's something heavenly about numbers, anyway.”

— Agatha Christie

“They say that maths is a language. So how do I order a pizza with extra cheese in maths?”

— Greg Curtis

In mathematics and science we solve our problems as well as create them. But in art and philosophy things are not so…

— Roger Scruton

And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

— Mark Haddon

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps…

— Kathryn Lasky

I'm the 'Dear Abby' of math problems. But if you understand something, shouldn't you be able to explain it? Isn't that the…

— Sal Khan

“When one made love to zero spheres embraced their arches and prime numbers caught their breath...”

— Raymond Queneau

We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.

— Jean Dieudonne

Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words; geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures.

— Sophie Germain

Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense.

— Lord Kelvin

“Je me rends parfaitement compte du desagreable effet que produit sur la majorite de l'humanité, tout ce qui se rapporte, même au…

— Anonymous

THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

But on the other hand, in discussion and debate concerning social issues or American foreign policy, Vietnam or the Middle East, for…

— Noam Chomsky

Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the…

— Dan Meyer

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. Roughly speaking,…

— Stanislaw Ulam

[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own…

— Morris Kline

In the old physics, three times two equals six and two times three equals 6 are reversible propositions. Not in quantum physics.…

— Paul Auster

A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Time is something in life not to divide if so you loose it four times.

— Denise Clark

That's a number that in broadcasting is unimaginable.

— Charles Osgood

How to do MATH Step 1. Write down the problem Step 2. Cry

— Ritu Ghatourey

Age may only be a number, but the bigger it gets, the longer you get to hang around.

— Linda Poindexter

I see you finally got a number to match your IQ.

— Bob Marley

“Numbers tell a story but peoplebring it to life.”

— Dave Bookbinder

Finding a treasure is like working on algebra equations, all you have to do is find the X

— Hussein Nishah

Life is a math problem¦sometimes we have to forget about it!

— Anonymous

One plus one equals three. When a man and woman marry they become one never two.

— Eddie Griffin

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

— Shaquille O'Neal

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

— David Hilbert

... combinatorics, a sort of glorified dice-throwing.

— Robert Kanigel

“They put a man on the moon. Can’t they find some way to end the scourge of algebra?”

— Huston Piner

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

— Jacqueline Carey

A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.

— Herbert Wilf

If offered, I'll definitely do an item number. I don't think there is anything wrong in it.

— Rituparna Sengupta