Math Quotes · Page 18

In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money.

— French Montana

Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?

— Sophie Kinsella

If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.

— Vinod Khosla

“I'm bad at math because I can't find the basic statement in it.”

— Innasafa

I am not really doing research, just trying to cultivate myself.

— Alexander Grothendieck

In order to solve this differential equation you look at it until a solution occurs to you.

— George Polya

God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.

— Paul Erdos

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible…

— Alfred North Whitehead

In Montana, a math teacher is running for the Senate. Win or lose, she plans on demanding a recount because math is…

— Conan O'Brien

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd…

— David Mumford

Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long… This one would…

— Blaise Pascal

Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem,…

— Danica McKellar

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my…

— Raymond Smullyan

[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.

— Evan Esar

I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy…

— Bo Burnham

“Luck is not some esoteric, godlike phenomenon. Luck is countable but undefinable. Luck easily can be explained by a number of factors…

— Csaba Gabor

“I've always been good at math. It's straightforward, black-and-white, right and wrong. Equations. Da thought of people as books to be read,…

— Victoria Schwab

Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like…

— Jodi Picoult

In North Korea the math book says, you know, there are four American bastards. You kill two of them. Then how many…

— Park Yeon-mi

I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite,…

— Janna Levin

There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters…

— Anya Kamenetz

I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that…

— Danica McKellar

The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of…

— Lance Armstrong

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

— Ronald Graham

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

— William Blake

Music, to me, is not math or science. It is a language.

— Russell Malone

I didn't major in math. I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them, too.

— Mike Huckabee

Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.

— Robert Breault

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

— Edward Witten

Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.

— Anonymous

It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

— Augustus De Morgan

Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.

— Pythagoras

A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.

— Hendrik Lenstra

You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven...

— Colum McCann

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

— George Polya

Since childhood I've been very bad with formulas in math, physics.

— Pulkit Samrat

The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.

— Kevin Ashton

When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.

— Rene Descartes

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

— Alfred North Whitehead