Mathematics Quotes · Page 78

Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful.

— Doron Zeilberger

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

— Louisa May Alcott

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize…

— Paul Halmos

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

— Charles Darwin

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

— Marissa Mayer

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation…

— Roger Bacon

“Like some people are bad at math, some people are bad at talking to women. And some at both, now that’s luck…

— Daya Kudari

The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers.

— Georg Cantor

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

“Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to…

— Yoko Ogawa

Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as…

— Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing…

— John Steinbeck

“With the invention of the fractals, what was once unrecognizable became recognized, and what was vague became distinguishable even in plain graphics. …

— Tim Clearbrook

Logic leaves us no choice. In that sense, math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their…

— Steven Strogatz

From a UX standpoint, the toughest battle is how to make a platform that's really open so kids can use it but…

— Jake Barton

The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his…

— James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

— John von Neumann

Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the…

— Ian Hacking

In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out,…

— Norm MacDonald

“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“When we combine the set of whole numbers with their opposites, including zero, we obtain a set of numbers we call integers.…

— Judith Sowder

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms,…

— Jonathan Swift

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

— Alfred North Whitehead

When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful…

— Shane Carruth

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they…

— Isaac Barrow

Math May Not Teach Us How To Add Love Or Minus Hate, But It Gives Us Every Reason To Hope That Every…

— Pacifiersucker

There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.

— Claude Simon

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is…

— Leonardo da Vinci

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their…

— Robert Musil

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for…

— Albert Einstein

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

— Wim Hof

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is…

— G. H. Hardy

It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody…

— Peter Blair Henry

I hate mathematics but It all appears that life is actually factorizing your dreams,change of thoughts & stastistically taking a step.

— Colynx Mckobby Akwetey Jnr

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

— Bob Dylan

Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was…

— John Maeda

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.

— Tom Lehrer

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

— John G. Kemeny

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a…

— Henry David Thoreau

It keeps me from getting too overwhelmed about the industry when I can just do my math homework.

— Clairo