Math Quotes · Page 32

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky…

— Sandra Lerner

...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.

— John G. Kemeny

“5.4 The question of accumulation. If life is a wager, what form does it take? At the racetrack, an accumulator is a…

— Julian Barnes

I struggled with math and had no interest in sports.

— Kim Brooks

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

— Edward Kasner

Logic is the anatomy of thought

— John Locke

Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a…

— Tom Waits

God ever arithmetizes.

— Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama,…

— J. C. Chandor

So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because…

— Danica McKellar

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms,…

— Jonathan Swift

As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other…

— William Thurston

[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.

— Henri Poincare

Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke

— P. J. O'Rourke

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

— Marston Morse

The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come…

— Paul Lockhart

"Ganas is all you need."

— Jaime Escalante

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has…

— Hermann Weyl

The more you know, the less sure you are.

— Voltaire

There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There…

— Wynton Marsalis

Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.

— Michael C. Reed

I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— G. H. Hardy

I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.

— Charlie Simpson

The schools I went to as a kid made me wary. It was clear to me that everything was a lie except…

— Suzan Shown Harjo