Math Quotes · Page 23

Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

— Norman Cousins

Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.

— Leonard Adleman

I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.

— James Van Der Beek

2 negatives only equal a positive in math. Take the high road today!

— Anonymous

*i open my math book* *i start to cry* *i close my math book*

— Anonymous

1+1=2 easy 1+2=3 this is where math = a bad relationships

— Kevin McCarty

The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.

— Jacques Hadamard

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

— David Crane

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

— Philip J. Davis

A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the…

— John Edensor Littlewood

When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a…

— Paul Erdos

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths,…

— Marjane Satrapi

“...but numbers didn't lie. That was the reason I loved math. It was the only pure form of honesty left in this…

— Teresa Mummert

When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity…

— Brian Greene

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race…

— Eric Temple Bell

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

— Mark Twain

“[ The Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe , I would know him when we meet,…

— Sarah Williams

“Language as putative science. - The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the…

— Leon Henkin

... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not…

— Henri Lebesgue

“ Ohm found that the results could be summed up in such a simple law that he who runs may read it,…

— Oliver Heaviside

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but…

— Thomas Hobbes

The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of…

— Albert Einstein

Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental…

— Hyman Bass

Numbers are the free creation of the human mind.

— Richard Dedekind

I was a topper till class tenth and wanted to initially be a scientist.

— Sonu Nigam

I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.

— Bertrand Russell

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

— Charles Darwin

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

— Blaise Pascal

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

— Roger Bacon

Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

— Lewis Carroll

I was good at math before they decided to mix the alphabet in it.

— Rick Sutter

A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.

— Robert Daniel Carmichael

I was good at math until they added the alphabet :)

— Author Name

To ask the right question is harder than to answer it.

— Georg Cantor

Math + English had a relationship. How else did we get Algebra then?

— Anonymous

The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.

— Edward Kasner

I enjoyed like nothing else working in pure math, discovering new formulas.

— Jerry McNerney

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

— Nathan Lane

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

— William Wordsworth