Mathematics Quotes · Page 37

Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.

— Paul Feyerabend

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

— Georg Cantor

“How do you make the number one disappear by adding one letter to it?”

— Puzzleland

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

— Henri Poincare

At school in math class...so bored but in me glasses!!!

— Nikki

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

— Ellsworth Kelly

Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n.

— Joel Spolsky

My math book needs to commit suicied it has way to many problems

— Drew Fonner

You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.

— Jane Yolen

Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life.

— Mary Hatwood Futrell

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

— Brian Greene

On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content…

— Paul Dano

Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its…

— Noga Alon

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in…

— Aravind Adiga

The only time I saw a woman doing anything interesting - I had a math teacher who was a woman. So I…

— Judith Love Cohen

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

— Jonah Peretti

Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of…

— Albert Pike

The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we…

— James Clerk Maxwell

The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

I like words and numbers. I'm obsessed with them. You know, I think I would've been a mathematician had I kept up,…

— Jackee Harry

Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively…

— J. H. Plumb

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

Descriptive geometry has two objects: the first is to establish methods to represent on drawing paper which has only two dimensions,-namely, length…

— Gaspard Monge

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no…

— Plutarch

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

— Carl Sandburg

We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it.

— Cathy O'Neil

“Mathin had taught her patience, and she had known all of her life how to be stubborn.”

— Robin McKinley

I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

— Magic Johnson

Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

— Jason Earles

My math teacher accused me of cheating, I cant help that my english teacher is hotter.

— Azgraybebly Joslan

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

— Andre Weil

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

— Debi Thomas

Real numbers are good if you add the word 'random'.

— Peter Sarnak

“If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand.”

— Paul Dirac

“LOTTERY TICKET: a voluntary tax paid by people who are extremely bad at math.”

— Roy H. Williams

“Come on, let's go see if Aires taught you pool like he did math.”

— Katie McGarry

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

— Baruch Spinoza

“I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.”

— Markus Zusak

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

Weirdest math problem ever : 'Maggy bought 61 sofa's ...' Why the hell would the bitch do that?

— Anonymous