Math Quotes

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The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings. — John Stuart Mill
But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding... — George Berkeley
And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely… — George Berkeley
Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus… — Aldous Huxley
No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In the one branch he most needed — Henry Adams
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method — Nicholas Murray Butler
The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible… — Galileo Galilei
I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer… — John Forbes Nash
When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few… — Danica McKellar
I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics. — John Henry Carver
As I said in my last book, birds are mean. They're the only pet that, when they escape, the owners are relieved. You can tell… — Adam Carolla
Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. — Margot Asquith
He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem. — Confucius
I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go. — Winston Churchill
I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did. — Albert Einstein
I think I think, therefore I think I am. — Ambrose Bierce
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy. — Francis Crick
Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith. — Leo Tolstoy
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. — Charles Sanders Peirce

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