Mathematics Quotes · Page 41

I really like maths.

— Bo Burnham

The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“If the theory of numbers could be employed for any practical and obviously honourable purpose, if it could be turned directly to…

— G.H. Hardy

“I prefer to think Of numbers not words Their precision Puts me at Ease with the Clarity of it all   No…

— John Moran

I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on…

— Anonymous

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

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

There are some parts I like about school. I like math a lot, and I like physics.

— Morgan Saylor

Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

When you set the right targets, aspirations, and you work efficiently and diligently, the numbers happen.

— Anand Mahindra

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.

— Timothy Gowers

The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used,…

— James Joseph Sylvester

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

— Eugene Wigner

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

— David Neeleman

Although I liked especially physics and mathematics for which I had considerable talent, I decided to study medicine. This profession had for…

— Renato Dulbecco

The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast…

— Jonathan Evison

Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another…

— Andre Weil

I don't want to be a number two, that's clear. I want to play.

— Simon Mignolet

If Math was a woman, we'd be married already.

— Mark Gonzales

The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers…

— Carl Jung

“The letter is susceptible of operations which enables one to transform literal expressions and thus to paraphrase any statement into a number…

— Tobias Dantzig

Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can…

— Cornelius Lanczos

For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as…

— David Berlinski

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and…

— Ada Lovelace

Nature imitates mathematics.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

— John Locke