Math Quotes · Page 22

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

— Henri Poincare

At school in math class...so bored but in me glasses!!!

— Nikki

The math of durability in McCain's life is extraordinary.

— John Dickerson

I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

— Isaac Newton

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

— Georg Cantor

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

— Jeff Greenfield

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I like Math because there's only one right answer.

— Brendan Fehr

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and…

— Nicholas Stern

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be…

— Q'orianka Kilcher

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid…

— Steven Weber

I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I…

— Jamie Hyneman

When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you…

— Paul Halmos

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

— Martin Ryle

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.

— J. W. N. Sullivan

Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to…

— George Polya

We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to…

— David Foster Wallace

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell…

— Barack Obama

I have a really small puppy, Georgie, and one of my favorite things is to take her to the park and play…

— Emily Alyn Lind

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ...…

— James Joseph Sylvester

As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap.…

— Martin Gardner

Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we…

— Alfred North Whitehead

It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange

I'm not a programmer; I'm more of a performer. I'm really bad at math.

— Du Yun

“ Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.”

— Charles Hermite

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

— Nicholas Eberstadt

There are some parts I like about school. I like math a lot, and I like physics.

— Morgan Saylor

On a math test: 2+2 = ? Me: *I'll use calculator just in case*

— Anonymous

Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.

— Albert Einstein

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

— Francis Crick

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

— John Henry Carver

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

— Richard P. Feynman

A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.

— John Edensor Littlewood

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

— Eric Allin Cornell

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

— Joan Cusack

Al-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic.

— Jon Stewart

Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths.

— Harry Styles

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

— G. H. Hardy