Mathematics Quotes · Page 75

Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.

— Ogyu Sorai

As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which…

— Paul Dirac

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each…

— Hermann Hankel

Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

— Vladimir Arnold

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

— Stephen Hawking

Dear math , I liked you a whole lot more before you and the alphabet started hooking up Sincerely, All students.

— Xuan Ta

Very early on there were the girls who were good at singing, at the arts, or mathematics or languages, and I wasn't…

— Geraldine James

I think one nice thing about mathematics is that we don't really have one prize that dominates all the others, like the…

— Terence Tao

“The rule for working out prime numbers is very simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling…

— Mark Haddon

“And I love math because there's always a right answer. It's not interpretive; it's not subjective. There is a correct destination, even…

— Emery Lord

In our travels, we have come across many equations--math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for…

— Libba Bray

“Fourier succeeded in proving a theorem concerning sine waves which astonished his, at first, incredulous contemporaries. He showed that any variation of…

— John Robinson Pierce

I think it is a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations…

— Paul Dirac

The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but…

— Celia Green

To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that…

— Blaise Pascal

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that…

— Anonymous

A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to…

— Paul Halmos

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

— Harold Davenport

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

— Albert Einstein

... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with…

— Timothy Gowers

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

— John von Neumann

I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this…

— Brad Pitt

“4.23..If 'thought' means: instance of the subject in a truth-procedure, then there is no thought of this thought, because it contains no…

— Alain Badiou

A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.

— James Joseph Sylvester

I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I…

— Bill Gates

“The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful…

— Robert Turnbull

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher…

— C. V. Wedgwood

Students famous nightmare is that when teacher start victimizing who will go to the blackboard to resolve a mathematics exercise .

— MLY AB

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not…

— Henry John Stephen Smith

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

— Albert Einstein

I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why…

— Rosie O'Donnell

The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.

— Peter Tait

...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was…

— Thomas Hardy

School is pointless! English: We speak it. History: They're dead, get over it. Math: 1+1 = 2 Beyonce taught us that. Spanish: We have Dora...

— Anonymous

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

— Brian Greene

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...

— G. Stanley Hall

As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.

— G. H. Hardy

I spent six months working as a temp in Hanslow Library and I mastered the Dewey Decimal System in two days flat...I'm…

— Donna Noble

The schools I went to as a kid made me wary. It was clear to me that everything was a lie except…

— Suzan Shown Harjo

If you want to do then there are number of ways, If you don't want to do then there are number of…

— Siddhant Bhilatia