Math Quotes

992 quotes by 704 authors

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. — Mae West
You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation.… — Shaun White
We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the… — Andrew Wiles
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. — A. N. Wilson
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of… — Peter Wright
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the… — Bertrand Russell
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical… — Mark Haddon
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. — Mark Twain
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe. — Kurt Vonnegut
God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here. — Paul Erdos
Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it… — Galileo Galilei
Black holes are where God divided by zero. — Albert Einstein
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery. — Alfred North Whitehead
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending… — Robert A. Heinlein
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator,… — Leo Tolstoy
But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure… — A A Milne
I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n. — Paul Erdos
One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never. — Alexandre Dumas

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