Mathematics Quotes · Page 47

It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

— Plato

After two years of undergraduate study, it was clear that I was bored by the regime of problem-solving required by the Cambridge…

— Philip Kitcher

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

— Paul Erdős

Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked…

— John Muir

Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of…

— Albert Pike

In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

— Hermann Hankel

“The goal of mathematics is the symbolic comprehension of the infinite with human, that is finite, means.”

— Hermann Weyl

But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the…

— Lee Smolin

A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either…

— Steven Landsburg

“The certainty of mathematics depends on its complete abstract generality.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

I'm writing a book called 'The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus' about the maths of Christmas: how to set up a secret…

— Hannah Fry

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

— Conor McGregor

Math jokes arent funny, nothing about math is funny, math is a sin(e).

— Ramandeep Singh

With the exception of the geometrical series, there does not exist in all of mathematics a single infinite series the sum of…

— Niels Henrik Abel

It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.

— Paul Erdos

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into…

— Bill Gates

It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;…

— Bertrand Russell

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

— Lord Kelvin

Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the…

— Eric Temple Bell

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it…

— Chris Bosh

"It's very good jam," said the Queen. "Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate." "You couldn't have it if you…

— Lewis Carroll

Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

— Michael Marcus

There's a mathematical way to get success.

— Dave McClure

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

— Charles Darwin

All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic…

— Vladimir Arnold