Mathematics Quotes · Page 52

So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.

— Tycho Brahe

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

— Thomas Eakins

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

— Anonymous

“My age and the ages of my children are imaginary numbers.”

— Carol L. Covin

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

— Plato

Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish

— Malcolm Gladwell

We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk.

— Alice Cooper

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

— Robert Quine

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.

— Joseph Warren

Before I came out, people always asked me math questions. But once I became a woman, they stopped. There's unintended discrimination.

— Vivienne Ming

< 3 : we use this as a symbol for heart. In math, it is less than three. It means that love…

— Islam Elnady

Sex is like math You subtract the clothes Add the bed Divide the legs And Pray to god You dont multiply

— Anonymous

One plus one is two. That's how it is with me and you, and since the sky is always blue, know that…

— Anonymous

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will…

— Thales

Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to…

— Edward Frenkel

The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into…

— Keith Devlin

“Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed,…

— Paolo Giordano

A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

There is always more in one of Ramanujan's formulae than meets the eye, as anyone who sets to work to verify those…

— G. H. Hardy

A mathematician would hardly call a correspondence between the set of 64 triples of four units and a set of twenty other…

— Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how…

— Stephen Leacock

“Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all…

— Farkas Bolyai

“That’s right, but it’s not a mathematical proposition. It’s a sociological observation and there is always the possibility of exceptions to such…

— Isaac Asimov

Relationships are a lot like Algebra. Have you ever looked at your X and wondered Y?

— Scarlet Kim

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.

— Stanislaw Ulam

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

— Stephen Sondheim

“comes by again, give her my number and tell her…Never mind.”

— Melissa Foster

Truth is not diminished by the number of people who believe it..!!

— Anonymous

“Music is what mathematics does on a Satruday night.”

— Aaron Sorkin

“That's the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief”

— Ben Sherwood

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

— John Steinbeck

You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.

— Maxwell Rosenlicht

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

— Paul Auster

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

— Simon Mignolet

“Mathematicians need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.”

— Paul Hoffman

“[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth”

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

“The number I had for her didn’t work. But in this depression, could you blame it?”

— Jarod Kintz

Lmao. My math teacher just added me on Facebook. I hate him.

— Anonymous