Mathematics Quotes · Page 77

I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.

— Tina Fey

Combinatorialists and analysts always have different names for everything, in order to keep themselves from interacting.

— Jennifer Tour Chayes

The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to…

— Paul Ormerod

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

— Rahul

You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science…

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if…

— Steve Martin

I recall being fascinated by numbers even at age three and viewed their manipulation as a kind of game.

— Terence Tao

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

The negative reactions to 'The Number of the Beast' were strange. When we wrote it, we never expected anything like that.

— Steve Harris

As one can solve maths by concentrating do I focus on certain places in my body and generate heat because of it.

— Wim Hof

“It is a little like developing the habit of stealing the test from your teacher’s desk instead of learning how to do…

— Josh Waitzkin

Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if…

— Heather Wilson

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods:…

— Le Corbusier

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

— Alfred Adler

Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not…

— Douglas Adams

... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We…

— Robert M. Pirsig

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

An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the…

— Stephen Smale

Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.

— Bill Gates

Soviet mathematics was particularly good in the second half of the 20th century, basically because of the arms race, because the Soviet…

— Masha Gessen

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"

— Gian-Carlo Rota

“The Golden Number is a mathematical definition of a proportional function which all of nature obeys, whether it be a mollusk shell,…

— Anonymous

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.

— Pythagoras

I did all right in school, especially in math.

— Dakota Meyer

As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which…

— Rene Descartes

Math is dumb. only pirates need to find x.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Dear math, grow up and solve your own stupid problems I'm sick and tired of doing it for you!

— Anonymous

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

— Richard M. Nixon

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

— Plato

To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the…

— Pierre de Fermat

I find discussing mathematics with colleagues of different backgrounds one of the most productive ways of making progress.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

Art is a form of understanding like philosophy and science and mathematics are an understanding but the difference is that art has…

— Robert Longo

This book reminds me of James Gleick's Chaos. The ideas and stories in Loving and Hating Mathematics are timely, interesting, and sometimes…

— Steven G. Krantz

“My stepfather, the builder, taught me how to perform certain operations in geometry: how to divide a line exactly in half, how…

— Ken Follett

With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus…

— Richard Courant

Now I will have less distraction.

— Leonhard Euler

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

— Plato

I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects;…

— Frederick The Great

I believe that great success is possible in any field — from music to mathematics to macro trading.

— Paul Tudor Jones