Mathematics Quotes · Page 72

Hurry up and write your number down before I don't want it no more,

— Will Smith

I wasn't into math and stuff like that. I liked playing and having fun all the time.

— Nav

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

— G. H. Hardy

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

People think they don’t understand math, but it’s all about how you explain it to them. If you ask a drunkard what…

— Israel Gelfand

“In those few short moments, we traveled a distance that transcends numbers.”

— Dave Cenker

Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music.…

— T Bone Burnett

Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from…

— Brian Greene

[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the…

— Paul Lockhart

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

— Camille Paglia

“That is what is marvelous about school, she realized: when you are in school, your talents are without number, and your promise…

— Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has…

— Bertrand Russell

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

— John Arbuthnot

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

— Anonymous

There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

... there are those who believe that mathematics can sustain itself and grow without any further contact with anything outside itself, and…

— Mark Kac

“Mathematicians call it “the arithmetic of congruences.” You can think of it as clock arithmetic. Temporarily replace the 12 on a clock…

— John Derbyshire

Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as…

— Alfred Adler

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes…

— Leonhard Euler

“If You Think Math is Hard Try Web Design”

— Trish Parr

It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

— Augustus De Morgan

Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.

— Patrick Ewing

“To calculate 'the' fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about everything, and this we do not…

— Steven Weinberg

Mathematics exists solely for the honour of the human mind.

— Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by…

— Anonymous

I'm really interested in male and female brains and whether female brains or male brains are better at maths.

— Rachel Riley

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

— Joan Cusack

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the…

— Anonymous

The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential…

— Freeman Dyson

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

— Anonymous

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of…

— Danica McKellar

“The seriousness of a theorem, of course, does not lie in its consequences, which are merely the evidence for its seriousness.”

— G.H. Hardy

And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession…

— Tobias Dantzig

You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which…

— William Stanley Jevons

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

— Henri Poincare

“No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us. { Expressing the importance of Georg Cantor 's…

— David Hilbert