Mathematics Quotes · Page 100

“Your calendar is made up of twelve munse, your clock is divided by twelve, but your math and currency is based on…

— Donald Swan

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.

— Nathanael West

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a…

— Daniel Dennett

If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

— Alex Faickney Osborn

I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.

— Allen W. Wood

When I told my son that I had to give a talk about my work to non-mathematicians, he warned me that regular…

— Richard A. Falk

And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as…

— Francis Bacon

“Problem Solving Toolbox • Draw a diagram or picture. • Act the problem out, step by step. • Make a systematic list,…

— Denise Gaskins

“We have seen that our numerical zero derives originally from the Hindu sunya, meaning void or emptiness, deriving from the Sanskrit name…

— John D. Barrow

I know we can all remember the days of sitting in algebra class asking ourselves, 'why will I need algebra or chemistry…

— Mercedes Schlapp

Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling.…

— Charles Seife

If you attack a mathematical problem directly, very often you come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to work and…

— Michael Atiyah

“It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any…

— Pierre de Fermat s

“You too can make the golden cut, relating the two poles of your being in perfect golden proportion, thus enabling the lower…

— Alison Charlotte Primrose

I love the psychology versus math and logic. In algebra, "X" means any possible variable. I sort of think about "X" in…

— Allie X

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts…

— Albert Einstein

Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.

— Milton Friedman

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

— William Joyce

“If mathematical knowledge is to have legitimacy, the mind must passively discover it (R5) without affecting it in any way; “mere delusion”…

— Lee Braver

“You do his homework?" "Just the math. It's a miracle he can count to ten." "I can count to one." Gabriel gave…

— Brigid Kemmerer

Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively.

— Anonymous

[As a young teenager] Galois read [Legendre's] geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

— Eric Temple Bell

One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.

— Philip J. Hanlon

If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each…

— John Von Neumann

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math…

— Bill Gates

“Not only can I teach you math, I can teach you math in bed, Jordan. You know, I'll add the bed, you…

— miranda kenneally

Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is…

— Gregory Maguire

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in…

— Antony Garrett Lisi

“Hands-on learning and the use of tools, he says, helps us to want to learn, to get rapid feedback, and to actually…

— Shane Snow

I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.

— Armand Borel

Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.

— Jean Dieudonne

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head…

— Voltaire

“I only know that when I study mathematics, I transport myself to another world, a world of exquisite beauty and truth. And…

— Dora Musielak

In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'

— Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza

I was a mathematician by nature, and still am - I just knew I didn't want to be a mathematician. So I…

— Stephen Sondheim

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait…

— C. S. Lewis

“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life.”

— Mark Haddon

Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet.

— Francois Viete

The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the…

— John Arbuthnot