Mathematics Quotes · Page 66

“Age is just a number, as long as that number is above eighteen.”

— A.J. Truman

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

I'm trying to be there when my number is called and even when my number is not called.

— DeSean Jackson

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

— G. H. Hardy

The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight.

— Philip J. Davis

I'm not much of a numbers guy, and yet that's the way I'm defined a lot.

— John Stockton

I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.

— Jerry McNerney

It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.

— Edward Frenkel

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.

— Evangelista Torricelli

The best way to teach a girl mathematics, u subtract her cloth, u add her to ur bed,divide her legs and multiple…

— Sweetner

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they…

— Jim Baggott

One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this…

— Galileo Galilei

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

— Mario Testino

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

— Hermann Weyl

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.

— Marston Morse

That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a…

— Albert Einstein

The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether…

— Louis Althusser

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes,…

— Frank Ocean

Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead…

— Violeta Parra

I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading,…

— Gary Bartz

I'm a strong believer that you have to have an equal opportunity to fail and to try things that are hard. I…

— Condoleezza Rice

... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without…

— Richard P. Feynman

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had…

— Henry David Thoreau

Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is…

— Israel Gelfand

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

— Anonymous

I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.

— Eva Amurri

I can only play the sport for so long, I have mathematics for the rest of my life.

— John Urschel

The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

One plus one is not two it's one that what we are!!! 1+1=1¤

— Chad Jones

Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.

— Ernst Mach

In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person.…

— Emily Deschanel

[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be…

— Gabriel Lippmann

I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe…

— Bertrand Russell

There Would Be Less Number Of Princesses Or Angels In Heaven, Than The Number Of Angels And Princesses On Facebook..

— Hemant Smarty

“Life Algebra 101 - I truly value my own ignorance of what is to come for me, It is those unknown variables…

— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say.…

— James Newman

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

— Alfred North Whitehead

There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.

— Kate Bush

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

— Gottfried Leibniz