Math Quotes · Page 16

“If the math works, why then you should be sure of yourself. That’s the whole point of math.”

— Neal Stephenson

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

— Stephen Hawking

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

— Joseph de Maistre

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.

— Benjamin Franklin

Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.

— Morris Kline

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

— Henri Poincare

In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

— Hermann Hankel

Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?

— Dr. Seuss

Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.

— Max Dehn

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid.…

— Gosta Mittag-Leffler

The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better…

— C. West Churchman

During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a…

— Marie Curie

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business.…

— Michael Silverblatt

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

— W.W. Rouse Ball

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.

— J. W. N. Sullivan

College was an experience I'll always cherish. Now I fund a scholarship at my alma mater in my late father's name-he'd laugh…

— Diana Palmer

I have a lot left. There's only four or five good centers in the league and I'm in that number. ... I've…

— Shaquille O'Neal

“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course,…

— John Green

Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to…

— Aristotle

“Tengo's lectures took on uncommon warmth, and the students found themselves swept up in his eloquence. He taught them how to practically…

— Haruki Murakami

I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My…

— Henry Petroski

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside…

— James Dyson

If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.

— David Hilbert

My father would not pay for me to study anything but engineering or math in college.

— Teri Hatcher

100% of the people who give 110% do not understand math.

— Demetri Martin

... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards.

— John C. Baez

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

— Ronald Graham

I wasn't into math and stuff like that. I liked playing and having fun all the time.

— Nav

“There are three kinds of people: those who are good at math and those who aren't.”

— Jessica Scott Kerrin

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.

— Rudolph A. Marcus

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

— Anonymous

The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

There are some parts I like about school. I like math a lot, and I like physics.

— Morgan Saylor

“ Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.”

— Charles Hermite

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

— Nicholas Eberstadt

I'm not a programmer; I'm more of a performer. I'm really bad at math.

— Du Yun

I like Math because there's only one right answer.

— Brendan Fehr

It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange