Math Quotes · Page 24

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Benjamin Peirce

You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose.

— Nora Roberts

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

— Walt Whitman

“In math you always check your work. In medicine, no.”

— Michael Lewis

“Although Math can't teach us how to add love or minus hate, it teaches us that every problem has a solution”

— Anonymous

One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World…

— Philip J. Davis

Music teaches the Soul understanding of harmony. Math describes that harmony with equations, rates and rhythms. Given to that, aren't we all…

— George Zafiris

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental…

— Albert Einstein

*During math test* My answer: 28. Answer choices: 17, 19, 26, 45. Me: well 26 is closer to 28, so that must be the answer.

— Mackenzie

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

— M. C. Escher

If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.

— Michio Kaku

It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects.

— John C. Baez

We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations?…

— Albert Einstein

All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are…

— Michael Cunningham

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions…

— Francis Crick

If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see…

— George Polya

When will it begin, anyway?" Sirus held his gaze for a moment, his eyes full of concern- a concern that Joss didn't…

— Heather Brewer

It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use…

— George Santayana

The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to…

— Doron Zeilberger

That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose…

— Ben Sherwood

I thought I was going to be a veterinarian. I was good in science and in math, and I loved animals.

— Terry J. Lundgren

Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!

— Lewis Black

I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will…

— Thales

If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.

— Erwin Schrodinger

I'm not terribly athletic. And... there's a lot of things I'm not good at. And if it makes anybody feel better, I…

— Lester Holt

When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and…

— Paul Ryan

In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created.

— Mae Jemison

He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability,…

— Voltaire

...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized…

— Kurt Gödel

“It was the great Hungarian-born polymath John von Neumann who first recognized that social behavior could be analyzed as games.”

— Sylvia Nasar

A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open,…

— John Edensor Littlewood

I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school,…

— Lisa Randall

Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so…

— Jack Handey

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers…

— Justin Guarini

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.

— Robert Huber

My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends.

— David Spade

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

— Sally Ride

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

— John James Audubon

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

— James Clerk Maxwell