Mathematics Quotes
1259 quotes by 653 authors
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When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
— John James Audubon
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In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
— Charles Babbage
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
— Francis Bacon
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All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious…
— Roger Bacon
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For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
— Roger Bacon
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Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
— James A. Baldwin
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Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
— Stefan Banach
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
— John Adams
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
— Ambrose Bierce
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it…
— George Boole
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A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.
— Mel Brooks
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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say…
— Lord Byron
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In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
— Georg Cantor
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Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still…
— David Hume
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[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to…
— Morris Kline
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Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.
— Arnold Sommerfeld
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are…
— Richard Courant
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