Math Quotes

992 quotes by 704 authors

I don't know if the police of naming statements would agree with this. — Roman Abramovich
The polynomial xnâˆ’1 is a force of nature. — Roman Abramovich
How are the germs made into a ring? By adding and multiplying. — Roman Abramovich
We'll only use as much category theory as is necessary. Famous last words... — Roman Abramovich
Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers. — Kato
The prime ideal is a princess of the world of ideals. Her father is the prince 'Point' in the world of geometry. Her mother is… — Kato
I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space'. Now I am an… — Kato
It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there. — Kato
If we drop money, we are usually very sad if the money is big. But for example, if we drop 310 dollars, we can relax,… — Kato
Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act… — Raymond Smullyan
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it. — Randall Munroe
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present… — Anton Chekhov
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and… — George Berkeley
Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We… — Albert Einstein
I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind. — Epicurus
Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and… — James Black
There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel. — Aristotle
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. — M.C. Escher
You burros have calculus in your blood. — Jaime Escalante
Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest,… — Farkas Bolyai

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