Mathematics Quotes · Page 47

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

— Charlie Chaplin

This is me! Take me or leave you your number not your facebook name.

— Kevin McCarty

Math and alcohol don't mix. Please don't drink and derive.

— Pacifiersucker

Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data.

— Timothy Gowers

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

— Fran Lebowitz

Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.

— Edward Frenkel

You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers.

— Warren Buffett

And then Satan said, 'Put the alphabet in math…'

— Anonymous

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

— G. H. Hardy

“...and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.”

— W.W. Rouse Ball

I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no…

— Stefan Banach

In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

“Really crazy stuff. I think they call it abstract math. What he created was usually beyond me, even conceptually.”

— Douglas E. Richards

Happiness surrounds the circumference of my life ever since you entered and made my diameter turn into a radius.

— Gian Lewis

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.

— J. W. N. Sullivan

“This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest…

— Paul Valéry

Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic…

— Ambrose Bierce

Certain functions appear so often that it is convenient to give them names. These are collectively called special functions. There are many…

— Richard Askey

“Finally it is, by the way, obvious that if mathematics can arrogate to itself the privilege of the nobility because of its…

— Johann Georg Hamann

I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean…

— Andrew Wiles

“We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we…

— Mortimer J. Adler

The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for…

— Lee Smolin

So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what…

— Keith Devlin

All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.]

— Roger Bacon

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

— G. H. Hardy

The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

— Jenni Rivera

“In math you always check your work. In medicine, no.”

— Michael Lewis

Being the best is great, you're the number one. Being unique is greater, you're the only one.

— Wilson Kanadi

I think more about preparation than numbers. If I'm well prepared, there will be results.

— Ada Hegerberg

“You were, are cactus tourism. meeting you: granular fractals borrowed from oceans.”

— Virginia Petrucci

Everyone haves a number but you have to make the number.

— Anonymous

Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.

— Ruth Brown

I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.

— Marvin Olasky

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

— Henri Poincare

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Benjamin Peirce

You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose.

— Nora Roberts

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

— Plato

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

— Thomas Carlyle

I enjoy working on a number of projects - books - at once.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez