Mathematics Quotes · Page 146

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.

— Alfred North Whitehead

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

— Havelock Ellis

A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet.

— Scott D. Anthony

“As to the need of improvement there can be no question whilst the reign of Euclid continues. My own idea of a…

— Oliver Heaviside

“The beauty of a mathematical theorem depends a great deal on its seriousness, as even in poetry the beauty of a line…

— G.H. Hardy

Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial,…

— Keith Devlin

“[Those] on fixed incomes are the nation's math elite.”

— Tim Dorsey

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.

— Gary Player

A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen…

— Henri Poincare

My father said he did have the mathematics of mind physics, or the physics of consciousness.

— Paul Laffoley

To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

— Warren Buffett

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy…

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn…

— George Lucas

I still remember the realization in college at Flinders University in Australia that mathematics was not just an abstract game of symbols…

— Terence Tao

If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I…

— Paul Lockhart

“comes by again, give her my number and tell her…Never mind.”

— Melissa Foster

I'm not good at math. Numbers are a terrifying thing to me. My father is a whiz with money and the stock…

— Chris Gethard

“The advancement and perfection of mathematics are ultimately connected with the prosperity of the state.”

— Napoléon Bonaparte

Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put…

— Jay Leno

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

— John Stuart Mill

“In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading…

— Eric Temple Bell

Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more…

— Jim Propp

I don't need to be NUMBER 1 in something. As long as I am not as TRYING HARD as YOU ARE. shame…

— ALYSSA

Politics is not an exact science. That's why in school I loved mathematics. Everything in mathematics was clear to me.

— Volodymyr Zelensky