Math Quotes
- I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible. — May Sarton
- Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself. — Plato
- Numerical precision is the very soul of science. — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
- All the mathematical sciences are founded on the relations between physical laws and laws of numbers. — James Clerk Maxwell
- Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink? — Dr. Seuss
- We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%! — Ellen DeGeneres
- Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'. — Billy Preston
- Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if… — Robertson Davies
- "The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable." — Alexander Dewdney
- Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
- Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
- I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that… — Archimedes
- All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension. — Thomas Banchoff
- There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than… — Raoul Bott
- Mathematics should be fun. — Peter Hilton
- By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours… — William J. Clinton
- Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself. — Claude Fayette Bragdon
- Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have. — Charles Darwin
- The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind. — Benoit Mandelbrot
- A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs. — Hendrik Lenstra