Mathematics Quotes · Page 32

I see you finally got a number to match your IQ.

— Bob Marley

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

— Pliny the Elder

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

— William Standish Knowles

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

— Xenocrates

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

— Oliver Heaviside

Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.

— Isaac Asimov

Our goal is not to be number one. Our aim is to be the only one.

— Suzuka Nakamoto

Unless you are aggressive, you will never become number one.

— Sonali Bendre

Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else…

— Paul Erdos

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.

— Samuil Shatunovsky

There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.

— Anaxagoras

The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is…

— Jean Dieudonne

“When he said someone had 'died', Erdős meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had 'left',…

— Paul Erdős

We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I feel that one should employ methods that reflect the physics of the problem at hand rather than the methods one happens…

— Lawrence Shepp

“The great masters of modern analysis are Lagrange , Laplace , and Gauss , who were contemporaries. It is interesting to note…

— W.W. Rouse Ball

“To calculate 'the' fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about everything, and this we do not…

— Steven Weinberg

“360 degrees of the circle can be divided evenly by all integers from 1 through 10 except 7; thus, 7 was considered…

— A.A. Attanasio

I wanted to go to LaGuardia High School for acting, but my math grades weren't high enough. So I didn't get to…

— Indya Moore

Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He…

— Augustus De Morgan

“Mathematicians think in symbols, physicists in objects, philosophers in concepts, geometers in images, jurists in constructs, logicians in operators, writers in impressions,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it…

— Northrop Frye

Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject…

— Gerolamo Cardano

Just because the devil's got your number doesn't mean you've got to answer the call.

— Anonymous

“I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.”

— Roger Jones

I am not who you thik I am,' I say. 'Who are you?' 'I am number Four.

— Pittacus Lore

Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.

— Vijay Sethupathi

What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice.

— George Polya

I put up O.K. numbers - not Bugs Bunny-style numbers like some other guys - but O.K. numbers.

— Ken Griffey Jr

Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.

— Umberto Eco

A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values.

— Barack Obama

Someone is the person that mark in our brain and also our heart

— Anonymous

Being mum is a number one job. That takes priority.

— Jasmine Guinness

Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.

— Robert Musil

The solution "cost me study that robbed me of rest for an entire night."

— Johann Bernoulli

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

— Albert Einstein

It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.

— Anonymous

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

— Galileo Galilei

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

— Aristotle