Math Quotes · Page 38

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.

— Brad Pitt

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

— Edgar Allan Poe

[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering…

— Thomas Little Heath

Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean…

— George Polya

I went through a period of time when math was my favorite subject. Then math wasn't as fun so much.

— Noah Gray-Cabey

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

— Simone Weil

We have the industrial agriculturalists who try and make an argument that big is beautiful. But if you do the math, and…

— Raj Patel

Numerical precision is the very soul of science.

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

“A feeling rose inside him, making him queasy, as though an elaborate formula he’d thought was perfect was now giving false results…

— Keigo Higashino

Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is…

— Bill Gates

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

— George E. P. Box

Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

— Lewis Carroll

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken when my math teacher said, "You're failing in school, you're messing up, why don't you…

— John Leguizamo

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very…

— Helen Keller

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics…

— Albert Einstein

I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness,…

— Ursula Burns

Many young women are less whole and androgynous than they were at age ten. They are more appearance-conscious and sex-conscious. They are…

— Mary Pipher

Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone…

— Howard Whitley Eves

I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can…

— Peter Cullen

Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

— William Wordsworth

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of…

— Henri Poincare

Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.

— George Polya