Mathematics Quotes · Page 82

I was reminded of the Sydney Harris cartoon that said 'adding two numbers that have not been added before does not constitute…

— Ronald Graham

By the time I was a student in high school...I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied…

— John Nash

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Numbers are everywhere," said Denis. "They're always the same, aren't they?" "Yes." "But Alice is only here." "Yes." "So you've already made…

— Paolo Giordano

“Maybe that is what beauty was, for humans. Accidents, imperfections, placed inside a pretty pattern. Asymmetry. The defiance of mathematics.”

— Matt Haig

Hits and runs are the numbers that really impress me. It means you're contributing a lot to your team by being in…

— Trea Turner

Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

— John Maynard Smith

I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an…

— Wolfgang Pauli

To function effectively, the system scientist must know a considerable amount about the natural world AND about mathematics, without being an expert…

— John L. Casti

One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on,…

— Ada Lovelace

I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again…

— Steven Weinberg

Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that…

— Edsger Dijkstra

We had principles in mathematics that were granted to be absolute in mathematics for over 800 years, but new science has gotten…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“His idea was to begin with those broad truths that must underlie all conceivable mental existences and establish a basis on those.…

— H.G. Wells

“By refraining from reducing multiplication to addition we are enabled through these axioms to banish continuity, which is so difficult to fix…

— Hermann Weyl

“Confusingly, these signs are known as Arabic numerals even though they were first invented by the Hindus (even more confusingly, modern Arabs…

— Yuval Noah Harari

[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never…

— Louise Fitzhugh

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

— Lucas Grabeel

Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.

— Henri Poincare

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

— David Plouffe

Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the…

— Richard P. Feynman

Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy,…

— Bob Hoskins

The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case…

— George Bernard Shaw

I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.

— Shakuntala Devi

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!

— Hilary Putnam

The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.

— Victor J. Stenger

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one…

— Immanuel Kant

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the…

— Simon Newcomb

“It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathematician, like the musician, is…

— Bertrand Russell

I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.

— David Mumford

We need to know math to be a good scientist, but math is a language, and we need to learn the language…

— Heidi Hammel

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from…

— John Arbuthnot

Friendship is lyk maths…frnds r added ,enemies r subtracted, joy is multiplied n sorrrows r divided…;) :)

— Pankaj Lodha

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

— Anonymous

Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged…

— Morris Kline

The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers.…

— Emily Oster

I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly…

— Stephen Hawking

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

— George Polya

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

— Anonymous

I may not be good at math or science or any subject, but the dancefloor is where I get to be a…

— Bella Thorne