Mathematics Quotes · Page 14

Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Math is pretty straightforward.

— Chase Elliott

I was x years old in the year x2.

— Augustus De Morgan

1 + 1 = 3 if you don't use condom...

— Don Kel

Math was always my best subject growing up.

— Paul G. Tremblay

There's luck in odd numbers.

— Samuel Lover

This is not class warfare -- it's math.

— Barack Obama

“Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur.”

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.

— Terence McKenna

Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.

— Charles Hermite

Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.

— Henri Poincare

Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.

— Conrad Wolfram

Ever since I've been on Twitter, my number of followers has kept going up and up.

— Dana White

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

— Charles Hermite

All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.

— Thomas Banchoff

Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

— Plato

“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to…

— David Hilbert

When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

— Lisa Randall

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.

— Janos Bolyai

The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

“I got zero on a maths test once," I said. "The teacher said he'd wanted to give me a minus number, but…

— J.L. Merrow

I had a thought that maths was the most complicated thing in the world, but now I came to knew that love…

— Samuel Jebaraj

The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics.

— Bill Gaede

Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I…

— Adam Rodriguez

We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and…

— Ada Lovelace

“The thesis of the book,” he writes in response, “when correctly interpreted, is essentially trivial. . . . To ‘prove’ such a mathematical result by…

— Jordan Ellenberg

Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch…

— George E. P. Box

Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong.…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on,…

— Ada Lovelace

I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again…

— Steven Weinberg

To function effectively, the system scientist must know a considerable amount about the natural world AND about mathematics, without being an expert…

— John L. Casti

My father taught only math.

— John Updike

What's wrong with being number two?

— Morrie Schwartz

Growing in numbers. Growing in speed

— Moby

26 is my favourite number.

— Max Minghella

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

— Plato

Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

— Charles Francis Richter

A mathematics teacher is a midwife to ideas.

— George Polya

I think math is exciting, you know.

— Theodore Melfi