Mathematics Quotes · Page 60

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

— Galileo Galilei

Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.

— L Peter Deutsch

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

— Arnold Sommerfeld

Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.

— William Thurston

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

— Michael Patrick King

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

— Jean Cocteau

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

— Shakuntala Devi

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

— Anonymous

“The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful…

— Robert Turnbull

I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I…

— Bill Gates

I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why…

— Rosie O'Donnell

The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.

— Peter Tait

Students famous nightmare is that when teacher start victimizing who will go to the blackboard to resolve a mathematics exercise .

— MLY AB

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not…

— Henry John Stephen Smith

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

— Albert Einstein

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...

— G. Stanley Hall

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

Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and…

— Edward de Bono

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for…

— Alfred Adler

“{ Replying to G. H. Hardy's suggestion that the number of a taxi (1729) was 'dull', showing off his spontaneous mathematical genius…

— Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar

It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists…

— William Stanley Jevons

I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive…

— Rene Descartes

Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The development of mathematics towards greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so…

— Kurt Gödel

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

— Martin Gardner

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.

— Jamie Murphy

I'm not really a numbers guy, but I always have a goal in mind.

— Myles Garrett

“I think I found the one thing more confusing then math: BOYS!”

— Grace+Gabby

Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes.

— Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

“A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good.”

— Amy Riekhof

If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.

— Paul Erdos

Maths? Aiyyo. You know what? I always had a love and hate relationship with the subject.

— Sanya Malhotra

“Success isn’t entirely a numbers game, but numbers play a part.”

— Mensah Oteh

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The Elements is arguably the most influential mathematical text in history.”

— Amir Alexander

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.

— Paul Signac

I didnt fail math. I just found a lot of ways not to do it

— Bubbly

For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.

— Rachel Hartman

Whenever my number is called, I'll be ready always.

— Markieff Morris