Funny mathematics Quotes

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.

— Tobias Dantzig

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never…

— Edward Gibbon

Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

— Norman Cousins

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race…

— Eric Temple Bell

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

— John G. Kemeny

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

— Charles Darwin

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

— Isaac Barrow

Know what you are talking about.

— Pope John Paul II

Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

— Paul Halmos

Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.

— Steven Wright

We never know what we are talking about.

— Karl Popper

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so…

— Francis Bacon

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

— Carl Benjamin Boyer

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

— Plato

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

— Paul Stanley

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

— Tom Lehrer

The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can…

— Eric Bell

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

— Carl Sandburg

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.

— Samuil Shatunovsky

[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.

— Evan Esar

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

— Richard Preston