Math Quotes · Page 21

I am not really doing research, just trying to cultivate myself.

— Alexander Grothendieck

“I'm bad at math because I can't find the basic statement in it.”

— Innasafa

God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.

— Paul Erdos

In order to solve this differential equation you look at it until a solution occurs to you.

— George Polya

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

— Ronald Graham

Music, to me, is not math or science. It is a language.

— Russell Malone

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

— William Blake

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

— Henri Poincare

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

— Lucas Grabeel

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

— Louise Fitzhugh

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid.…

— Gosta Mittag-Leffler

The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better…

— C. West Churchman

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

— John Arbuthnot

Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.

— Max Dehn

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn…

— George Lucas

I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense…

— Matt Haig

The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used,…

— James Joseph Sylvester

Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as…

— Haruki Murakami

In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering -…

— Laura Owens

But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence.…

— Anonymous

“I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave…

— Erwin Schrödinger

“The integrals which we have obtained are not only general expressions which satisfy the differential equation, they represent in the most distinct…

— Anonymous

I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics…

— Marilynne Robinson

You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.

— Maxwell Rosenlicht

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

— Stephen Sondheim

We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk.

— Alice Cooper

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

— Plato

Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.

— Talib Kweli

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

— Anonymous

I was good at Math until the alphabet was involved.

— Anonymous

If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.

— Rene Thom

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.

— John Cameron

Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.

— Danica McKellar

“I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.”

— Markus Zusak

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

— Debi Thomas

We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it.

— Cathy O'Neil

Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

— Jason Earles

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

— Carl Sandburg