Math Quotes · Page 20

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

— G. H. Hardy

Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths.

— Harry Styles

The introduction of numbers as coordinates is an act of violence.

— Hermann Weyl

“Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

— George Polya

I liked science. I wasn't mathematically oriented, so I became an organic chemist.

— Koji Nakanishi

It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.

— William Stanley Jevons

I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.

— Tina Fey

Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.

— Augusten Burroughs

This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the…

— Aaron Klug

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.

— Hyman Bass

When I was growing up, I knew I wanted to be a mathematician, but I had no idea what that entailed.

— Terence Tao

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been…

— Alfred Adler

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of…

— David Blaine

The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are…

— Marcus du Sautoy

The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life…

— Alexander Grothendieck

America faces many challenges...but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of…

— Anonymous

When I came to Harvard, I was debating between math and science, and I guess I thought in the end I wanted…

— Lisa Randall

Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would…

— Ellen Goodman

Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned…

— Bill Nye

Even as the finite encloses an infinite series And in the unlimited limits appear, So the soul of immensity dwells in minutia…

— Jacob Bernoulli

Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he…

— Paul Halmos

The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was "out there"…

— Paul Lockhart

“A person's value is attached to a variable exponent.”

— David Bajo

“Being kidnapped and abused by the undead was worse than calculus, but not by a wide margin.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

— Alice Sebold

Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.

— Steven Wright

Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.

— John Vane

“Math is my Passion. Engineering is my Profession.”

— Wilfred James Dolor

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

— Voltaire

I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'

— Brenda Song

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Edward Kasner

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.

— Pythagoras

I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.

— Jerry McNerney

I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it.

— Grover Norquist

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

— John Polkinghorne

I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff.

— MaryJanice Davidson