Mathematics Quotes · Page 79

I count a lot of things that there's no need to count," Cameron said. "Just because that's the way I am. But…

— Richard Brautigan

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

— David Hilbert

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

— Maryam Mirzakhani

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.

— Anonymous

Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry.

— Arthur Cayley

I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I…

— Khleo

Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied…

— Warren Buffett

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

— Edmund Husserl

Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these…

— Morris Kline

As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take…

— Apostolos Doxiadis

I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics,…

— Francis Collins

I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been…

— George Boole

Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;…

— Bertrand Russell

Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human…

— Havelock Ellis

“You’re probably better at math than I am, because pretty much everyone’s better at math than I am, but it’s okay, I’m…

— Jennifer Niven

I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.

— James Heckman

Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.

— Robert Langlands

“It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand…

— G. K. Chesterton

“You know a lot about math," I said. You know a lot about math? What type of statement was that? Right along…

— Katie McGarry

“Fundamentals build the foundation for all learning, you must understand arithmetic before algebra, and algebra before calculus.”

— David A. Monty

“However, mathematics-inspired books such as Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians (with its valuable, realworld lessons on subtraction) are fair game.”

— John Pearson

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

— Bertrand Russell

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

— James Gleick

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture

— Bertrand Russell

A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently…

— John Edensor Littlewood

If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.

— Alfred Renyi

The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in…

— John Stuart Mill

A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either…

— Steven Landsburg

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to…

— Raoul Bott

I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only…

— Charles Darwin

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a…

— Bill Gaede

“Awesome." "Awesome squared." "Awesome cubed." "Awesome to the power of infinity." "The square root of awesome is-" "-Asha." We finish at the…

— Hannah Harrington

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

— Albert Einstein

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and…

— Ken Robinson

I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.

— David Hilbert

“Mathematics becomes very odd when you apply it to people. One plus one can add up to so many different sums”

— Michael Frayn

I'm really interested in male and female brains and whether female brains or male brains are better at maths.

— Rachel Riley

If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the…

— Eric Temple Bell

The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".

— Richard A. Falk