Mathematics Quotes · Page 65

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

— Anonymous

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

— John Polkinghorne

Dear Math, Grow up and solve your own problems. I'm tired of solving them for you.

— Psyche_Zeroh

I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.

— Andrew Wiles

“If you formulate your question properly, mathematics gives you the answer”

— Savas Dimopoulos

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

— James Rainwater

How can you own [...] numbers? Numbers belong to the world.

— Donald Knuth

If you don't want to be number one, then I don't know what you are striving for.

— Brian Cage

Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They'll tell you they don't need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles…

— Tom Noddy

“ He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. { Describing the writing style of…

— Niels Henrik Abel

“There was a new math teacher who was apparently some serious eye candy. Even Amanda had cheered up after finding out that”

— Stacy Claflin

Only you can add love, subtract hate, divide sadness and multiply happiness. Only you can do that type of math.

— Maria

Success in life is not about the number of crowns you have, but the number of successors you have helped to succeed

— Mercy Pheona

The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester.

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do…

— Elayne Boosler

Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are…

— Heinrich Hertz

A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and…

— Timothy Gowers

You look at a clock and it tells you it's eight o'clock, you know the number of hours that has been before…

— John Henrik Clarke

People in the media and press often say they've never been good at math. It might be that people that consider themselves…

— Sal Khan

The dot was introduced as a symbol for multiplication by Leibniz. On July 29, 1698, he wrote in a letter to Johann…

— Gottfried Leibniz

“To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical…

— Thomas Piketty

When I was growing up, no one ever said to me, "You cannot do math because you're a girl." But, there was…

— Taraji P. Henson

I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force,…

— Heinrich Hertz

Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.

— Terence McKenna

Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.

— Charles Hermite

Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.

— Henri Poincare

Ever since I've been on Twitter, my number of followers has kept going up and up.

— Dana White

Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.

— Conrad Wolfram

“Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away.”

— Mark Haddon

A prime number is one (which is) measured by a unit alone.

— Euclid

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.

— Albert Einstein

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

— Hermann Weyl

I'm Bad At Maths, But I Know That You Can Count On Me.

— Pacifiersucker

I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it.

— Grover Norquist

The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous.

— Norman L. Biggs

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

— Renata Adler

I don't pick on anybody who has a number above 30.

— Mike Ditka

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

— Steven Wright

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

— Isaac D'Israeli