Mathematics Quotes · Page 73

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or…

— Hans Reichenbach

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of…

— G. H. Hardy

One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.

— Lisa Randall

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Yeah. Of course I can do simple math. I graduated high school, ya know.” “What an accomplishment. No one has ever done…

— S.A. Stovall

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

— Gabriel Marcel

The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in…

— Keith Devlin

At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But…

— David Berlinski

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning…

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in,…

— Edsger Dijkstra

“One can set up a completely self-contained mathematical theory, which proceeds from the elementary laws that are valid for individual points to…

— Bernard Riemann

But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make…

— Albert Camus

“God is a pure mathematician!' declared British astronomer Sir James Jeans. The physical Universe does seem to be organised around elegant mathematical…

— Paul Davies

In addition to its use in arithmetic and science, the Hindu-Arabic number system is the only genuinely universal language on Earth, apart…

— Keith Devlin

2 is a proletariat prime, but 4, 6 and 8 are also composite proletariats. Composites of the world unite; you have nothing…

— Karl Marx

Who cares for Algebra?Who delights in solving math?I only want to live my lifeAlong the creative path.

— Jennifer Niven

It is a mistake to suppose that requiring the nonmathematical to take more advanced math courses will enhance their understanding and not…

— William Raspberry

[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path…

— Francis Galton

I remember, at MIT, we had to write an essay about something mathematical that you do in your extra time. I basically…

— Payal Kadakia

There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a…

— Andy Wachowski

Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do…

— Andy Rooney

A gun is not a math problem, I won't even think, Just leave ya dead like the mink under my sink.

— Lil Wayne

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I…

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

Why is it that everyone complains about math I mean what about history and gym I mean those classes suck

— Drew Fonner

Mathematics may not teach us how to end world hunger, create world peace or fix a broken heart. But it does teach…

— Savannah Yates

Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as…

— James Clerk Maxwell

My old geometry teacher called me and he was like yo man you need to start wearing a shirt. You're ruining my…

— Drew Chadwick

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.

— Pierre de Fermat

Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind.

— Elvis Presley

“It is true that doing original math is 'lonely.' But it is also true that professional mathematicians compose a community.”

— David Foster Wallace

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

— Anonymous

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

— Aristotle

“You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That’s what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

— Martin Gardner

By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who…

— William J. Clinton

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

— John von Neumann

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of…

— Ada Lovelace

Maths is like a ladder - if you miss the first few rungs, you can't jump up, so start with the basics.

— Rachel Riley