Math Quote by John Edensor Littlewood Download Open image “The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.” — John Edensor Littlewood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Math Mathematical Mathematics Men Paper Publication Science Surprise Surprising Surprising things Writing
There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms." — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people lose it… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends."… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than… — Peter Hilton Copy Share Image
They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break… — Justin Guarini Copy Share Image
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration of the… — Jean-Baptiste Biot Copy Share Image
Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony? — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but if you're… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
