Mathematics Quotes · Page 35

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics.

— Gregory Bateson

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

— Thomas de Quincey

Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.

— Jennifer Tour Chayes

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

— Cokie Roberts

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't have the time. It would take me too long to go through all of the math.

— Paul Ryan

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

— Hermann Weyl

“Why is it that when you pick a number, any number, then double it, add 6, halve it, and take away the…

— Susan Elia MacNeal

The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.

— Israel Gelfand

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid…

— Steven Weber

As nines in our system, we need to make sure that we come off the line and that we have numbers correct…

— Faf de Klerk

The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating…

— Freeman Dyson

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

— Beverly Cleary

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

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and…

— Clifford Geertz

When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be…

— Charles Lyell

The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired…

— Salomon Bochner

Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have…

— Arthur Porges

The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke…

— John Maynard Keynes

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in…

— Edward Witten

Proofs of the Euclidean [parallel] postulate can be developed to such an extent that apparently a mere trifle remains. But a careful…

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

I take after my mother more than my father in terms of personality. My mother's a worrier, and I'm a worrier. Both…

— Michael Mina

There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.

— Noga Alon

I was married to the number one douchebag of all time.

— Brandi Glanville

That's not really a number I'm terribly interested in.

— Colin Powell

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

— Rich Lowry

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.

— Freeman Dyson

My math book committed suicide, he had too many problems.: D

— Arjun Loveable

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

— Claude Fayette Bragdon

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.

— John B. S. Haldane

Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it.

— Simeon Denis Poisson

See I had your number in my diary but as soon as I get home It has been changed.

— Freddie Mcgregor

I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.

— Charlie Simpson

I always say that intuition is the number one tool for an artist.

— David Lynch

No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.

— Richard Kadrey

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

— Anonymous

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

— Yuri Milner

A good student is one who will teach you something.

— Irving Kaplansky