Mathematics Quotes · Page 73

I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe.

— Priyamvada Natarajan

“The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.”

— Maimonides

Math teacher: I have 5 bottles in one hand, and 6 in the other. What do I have? Student: A drinking problem.

— Babloo

ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.

— Colin Maclaurin

“War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work out the sums, believing we have pressed the most…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I had a thought that maths was the most complicated thing in the world, but now I came to knew that love…

— Samuel Jebaraj

The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics.

— Bill Gaede

We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error.

— Tyler Winklevoss

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is…

— John Astin

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo…

— Hermann Weyl

“He went back to Iowa State, considered changing his major to mathematics, but didn’t. It was the consensus of all whom he…

— Neal Stephenson

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to…

— Henri Poincare

“... I left Caen, where I was living, to go on a geological excursion under the auspices of the School of Mines.…

— Henri Poincaré

There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in…

— John Ashworth Ratcliffe

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,…

— Anonymous

Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every…

— Julia Child

The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.

— Janos Bolyai

“I got zero on a maths test once," I said. "The teacher said he'd wanted to give me a minus number, but…

— J.L. Merrow

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

— Plato

“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to…

— David Hilbert

When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

— Lisa Randall

Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y…

— John C. Baez

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of…

— Ernest Hemingway

All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following…

— Blaise Pascal

“Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding”

— Anonymous

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

— Andrew Wiles

Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from…

— Christopher Robin Milne

“Life is a linear equation in which you can't cross multiply! If you think you can do it, you can do it.…

— Israelmore Ayivor

It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless.

— Isadore Singer

Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology.

— Susan Hockfield

“Mathematically-minded persons will thus perceive immediately that the magnitude scale is a logarithmic one and that the number 2.512 is the fifth…

— Robert Burnham

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

— Rene Descartes

A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few…

— Ludwig Boltzmann

Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.

— John Edensor Littlewood

Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.

— Anonymous

Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.

— Peter Cameron

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

— Marcus du Sautoy

The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ... A Treatise on…

— Julian Coolidge

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I…

— Freeman Dyson