Mathematics Quotes · Page 89

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“playing with numbers was still considered taboo, a subject best left to the later years, despite America’s obvious and enduring math handicap.…

— Amanda Ripley

If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors…

— Richard P. Feynman

The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift…

— Eugene Wigner

Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.

— Frederick Lenz

“Sex is like math: Add the bed, subtract the clothes, divide the legs, and hope you don’t mult—”

— Sanchez Alex

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

— Bill Gates

Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad…

— Terence Tao

But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to…

— Johann Bernoulli

All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic…

— Vladimir Arnold

To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive…

— Mark Kac

Mathematics can have its problems, but it's actually hasn't seen a lot of the problems as some of the other sciences and…

— Peter Woit

A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those…

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn…

— George Lucas

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it…

— Chris Bosh

Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians…

— Stephen Jay Gould

To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed…

— Bertrand Russell

My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't.

— Matthew McConaughey

I've said it before: equations are the devil's sentences. The worst one is that quadratic equation, an infernal salad of numbers, letters,…

— Stephen Colbert

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy…

— Thomas Mann

Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

— Steven G. Krantz

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

— Ken Robinson

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.

— Ian Stewart

In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their…

— Auguste Comte

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.

— Stanislaw Ulam

The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

— Donald Knuth

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

— G.H. Hardy

Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development…

— Ivor Grattan-Guinness

The greatest reward lies in making the discovery; recognition can add little or nothing to that.

— Franz Ernst Neumann

When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they…

— Danica McKellar

He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

— Paul Dirac

I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.

— Karen Marie Moning

One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the…

— Leon Henkin

My life is all math. I am trying to add to my income, subtract from my weight, divide my time, and avoid…

— Anonymous

“There is a largeness about mathematics that transcends race and time; mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches…

— Robert Turnbull

“Never was his remarkable memory more useful than when he could see mathematics only in his mind's eye.”

— William Dunham

You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position,…

— Delphine de Vigan

“Management purely by numbers is sort of like painting by numbers—it’s strictly for amateurs. At”

— Ben Horowitz