Math Quotes · Page 13

It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.

— Anonymous

I'm no quitter, unless it comes to human relationships or math and science.

— Dov Davidoff

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

— Richard Preston

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

— Paul Halmos

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

— Albert Einstein

Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.

— Alan Cohen

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

— Archimedes

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

— Bertrand Russell

“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift…

— Roman Payne

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.

— Samuil Shatunovsky

Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and…

— Richard Engel

I had accepted a job being a math teacher for Teach For America. So, that's what I would have done at least…

— Chris Baio

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

— David Plouffe

Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.

— Henri Poincare

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

— Lucas Grabeel

[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never…

— Louise Fitzhugh

Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of…

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives — a love of science, engineering, and math,…

— Ezra Taft Benson

hough I was creative, I also liked math and science. At Knox College, I studied creative writing and earned a degree in…

— Mary Pope Osborne

It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't…

— Michael Moritz

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern…

— Bertrand Russell

I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper…

— Paul Halmos

I don't have the time. It would take me too long to go through all of the math.

— Paul Ryan

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

— Claude Fayette Bragdon

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

— Charlie Simpson

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

— Isaac Newton

No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.

— Richard Kadrey

The greatest unsolved theorem in mathematics is why some people are better at it than others.

— Adrian Mathesis

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

— James Joseph Sylvester

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

— David Chang

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

— Peter Lynch

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

— George Polya

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

— Epicurus

Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

— Charlotte Moss

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

— Anonymous

I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in.

— Hulk Hogan

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

— Henri Poincare

If you can explain something with words then you don't know it well.

— George Zafiris