Math Quotes · Page 3

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

— Paul Ryan

Math was my favorite subject, and English was my worst.

— Rob Gronkowski

I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

— Gavin Newsom

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

— Ronald Graham

The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without…

— Morris Kline

“When a friend introduced me to a Bach chaconne, he started by describing it by saying that it has 256 measures (256=2^8)…

— James Stein

Maths is totally done differently to what I was teached when I was at school.

— David Beckham

“Please give it up. Fear it no less than the sensual passion, because it, too, may take up all your time and…

— Farkas Bolyai

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

— Kurt Gödel

Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it…

— Henri Poincare

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

— Georg Cantor

“...and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.”

— W.W. Rouse Ball

People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math…

— Tony Kushner

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

— Francis Crick

Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global...

— Rene Thom

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

— Paul Erdos

So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade…

— Paul Lockhart

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no…

— W. H. Auden

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

— Gregory Bateson

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

— M. C. Escher

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And…

— Martin Gardner

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

— Nicholas Murray Butler

“For we may remark generally of our mathematical researches, that these auxiliary quantities, these long and difficult calculations into which we are…

— Louis Poinsot

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

— Lucas Grabeel