Mathematics Quotes

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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
Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
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
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. — Stefan Banach
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. — John Adams
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. — Ambrose Bierce
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
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
A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance. — Mel Brooks
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
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. — Georg Cantor
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
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
[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
Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better. — Arnold Sommerfeld
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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