Mathematics Quotes · Page 38

I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.

— David Neeleman

“Looking out for number one and number one isn't you!”

— Corey Keller

“I’d hate to do arithmetic, George thought to himself, in a system based on fourteen.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“He doesn't seem to mind at all that he's stupid about math.”

— Wendy Lichtman

“Now tell me what happened—in words. I want your translation of the mathematics.”

— Isaac Asimov

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

— Nicholas of Cusa

“Formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your mathematics is.”

— Leslie Lamport

Doctor, what number are you on? You haven't even got a number!

— Donna Noble

I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.

— Shakuntala Devi

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!

— Hilary Putnam

Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the…

— Richard P. Feynman

Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy,…

— Bob Hoskins

I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an…

— Wolfgang Pauli

[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never…

— Louise Fitzhugh

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

— Lucas Grabeel

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

— David Plouffe

The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so…

— Kurt Gödel

Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him ; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means…

— Mary Everest Boole

“I have been able to solve a few problems of mathematical physics on which the greatest mathematicians since Euler have struggled in…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

“Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to? The effect of such a…

— Paul Lockhart

There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable…

— Niels Henrik Abel

In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from…

— John Edensor Littlewood

“the singularity of the point of suspension, the duality of the plane's dimensions, the triadic beginning of pi, the secret quadratic nature…

— Umberto Eco

Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that…

— Lynne Cheney

God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man.

— Leopold Kronecker

I Am Your Pin Number. Don't Give Me Away Especially Not So Easily

— Ms_Freshie

The only reason that we like complex numbers is that we don't like real numbers.

— Bernd Sturmfels

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

— Jayma Mays

A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

— John Edensor Littlewood

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

— Francis Bacon

Only Smart People Will Get This: 2+2= Fish 3+3= Eight 7+7= Triangle 4+4= Arrow 8+8= ?? :D

— Imynatot

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

— Arthur Eddington

I certainly wouldn't pay for a ticket to watch a math equation.

— Gerrit Cole

I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.

— George Polya

“The number 12 is good, the number 123 is better, but the number one is still the best.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Numbers arrange themselves the way numbers will, just as a word will, a story.”

— Katharine Haake

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

— Alexandre Dumas

I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.

— Butch Trucks

“Mathematics is not just a “numbers game,” it is a way of thinking.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

— Hermann Weyl