Mathematics Quotes · Page 46

“The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises.”

— Paul Scott

A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.

— Hendrik Lenstra

Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit.

— David Krumholtz

“What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school?”

— Erich Maria Remarque

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

— Edsger Dijkstra

One of the basic principles when you dealing with mathematics and Islam: Seek knowledge.

— Gza

I'm a real klutz computationally, so Mathematica is just ideal for me.

— Kip Thorne

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

— George Polya

Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.

— Stanislaw Ulam

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

— Benjamin Franklin

I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can…

— Bill Nye

Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.

— Arthur Cayley

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear…

— Anonymous

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business.…

— Michael Silverblatt

“But at some point Tengo noticed that returning to reality from the world of a novel was not as devastating a blow…

— Haruki Murakami

When I was in Cambridge reading mathematics, I went to Amsterdam for the International Mathematics Congress. There I saw M.C. Escher's fascinating…

— Roger Penrose

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. —Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction…

— Robert Wachter

... we should not be disappointed that everyday language does not work any longer at the apex of our little theory. It…

— Alexandre Borovik

People think they don’t understand math, but it’s all about how you explain it to them. If you ask a drunkard what…

— Israel Gelfand

...the mathematician uses an indirect definition of congruence, making use of the fact that the axiom of parallels together with an additional…

— Hans Reichenbach

It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the…

— Richard P. Feynman

I chose to be a maths teacher because I thought the marking would be easy. You'd just tick and cross, whereas if…

— Romesh Ranganathan

Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let…

— Brian X. Foley

This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.

— Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.

— Anonymous

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

— Werner Heisenberg

Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.

— Pythagoras

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

— Arthur Eddington

It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

— Augustus De Morgan

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

— Albert Einstein

Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

— Michael Crichton

It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

— Augustus De Morgan

I didn't major in math. I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them, too.

— Mike Huckabee

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

— Edward Witten

2+2=fish, 3+3=eight, 7+7=triangle...I hate kids.

— Anonymous

“the queen of science is mathematics and the queen of mathematics is arithmetic”

— Anonymous

We all know who the real number one is. Quite frankly, I'm the best in the world.

— Serena Williams

There's nothing better for my interests and talents than combining math and sports for profit.

— James Holzhauer

Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes.

— Lipman Bers