Mathematics Quotes · Page 59

Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.

— Joseph Conrad

Just because there is strength in numbers doesn't mean that the majority is always right.

— Anonymous

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

— Marcus du Sautoy

Happiness includes all numbers. It's infinite and eternal.

— Carlos Eire

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

— Paul Lockhart

I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics.

— Evelyn Boyd Granville

Madonna's always going to be number one, but I'm definitely a Britney fan.

— Guillermo Diaz

“System 1 represents sets by averages, norms, and prototypes, not by sums. Each”

— Daniel Kahneman

Dear math , I liked you a whole lot more before you and the alphabet started hooking up Sincerely, All students.

— Xuan Ta

Very early on there were the girls who were good at singing, at the arts, or mathematics or languages, and I wasn't…

— Geraldine James

I think one nice thing about mathematics is that we don't really have one prize that dominates all the others, like the…

— Terence Tao

“4.23..If 'thought' means: instance of the subject in a truth-procedure, then there is no thought of this thought, because it contains no…

— Alain Badiou

A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.

— James Joseph Sylvester

I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this…

— Brad Pitt

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

— John von Neumann

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher…

— C. V. Wedgwood

There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on…

— Noam Chomsky

“Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discovered by observation, the study…

— Joseph Fourier

A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great…

— James Gleick

We can... treat only the geometrical aspects of mathematics and shall be satisfied in having shown that there is no problem of…

— Hans Reichenbach

I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You…

— Brian Greene

If you are going to learn mathematics, you have to learn it not simply as an abstraction but as it is applied.…

— Jean Houston

You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that…

— Werner Heisenberg

“I tend to view the occasional failures of algorithms as opportunities to improve them. On the other hand, I find more pleasure…

— Daniel Kahneman

The student is best taught who is told the least

— Robert Lee Moore

Rule of math: If it seems easy, You're doing it wrong.

— Anonymous

One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.

— Stefan Banach

...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

— Isaac Newton

To be number one, you must train like you are number two.

— Maurice Greene

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

— Alec Guinness

I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.

— John Derbyshire

“Finding a number before zeros—a story that never ends.”

— Hannan Sher

If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.

— Richard P. Feynman

We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.

— Jimmy Wales

I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds.

— Gavin Extence

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

— Isaac Newton

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

— George Eliot

I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.

— Derek Walcott

One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.

— Israel Gelfand

Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

— Eric Baum