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Math Quotes by Morris Kline
- The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from…
- Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
- Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.
- Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.
More Math Quotes
- To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. — Marcus Aurelius
- How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! — Jane Austen
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. — Charles Baudelaire
- Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. — Jean Baudrillard
- The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. — Scott Adams
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. — Ambrose Bierce
- Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. — Ambrose Bierce
- Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math! — Lewis Black
- If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle. — Rita Mae Brown
- Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. — Jean de la Bruyere