Math Quotes

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Q: Whatâ€™s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination… — Tom Waits
Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get… — David Foster Wallace
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of… — H. L. Mencken
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more. — Albert Einstein
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty. — Bertrand Russell
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important,… — Albert Einstein
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit… — Arthur Conan Doyle
If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen… — Steve Martin
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. — John von Neumann
Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people. — Augusten Burroughs
Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists,… — Patrick Rothfuss
[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to… — Louise Fitzhugh
Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what… — Joss Whedon
People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a… — George Carlin
Infinite is a meaningless word: except â€“ it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition. — Louis Zukofsky
He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking… — Patrick Rothfuss
Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boyâ€”this boy!â€”knows nothin' abou'â€”about ANYTHING?" Harry thought this was going a bit… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower — Jacqueline Carey
The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy… — Alfred North Whitehead

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