Mathematics Quote by Neal Stephenson

“What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school?”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“I thought about the hours we spent practicing increasingly complex math problems. He taught me that lack of knowledge and lack of intelligence were…

— J.D. Vance

“Who rebels with mathematics?”

— Khaled Hosseini

“A man didn’t specialize in mathematics because he had a rare talent for human relationships.”

— Anne McCaffrey

“Surely this marked a new level of achievement in his amatory career. Never before had he charmed the frock off a woman with talk…

— Tessa Dare

“As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one about it…

— Bill Bryson

He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Great literature remains great when it says new things to new generations, and the loops of a knot quite nicely parallel the contours and…

— Sam Kean

“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry] ”

— David Hilbert

“Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was…

— Voltaire

“Tom was not good at math. He’d started to lose his way in middle school, as so many American kids did. It had happened…

— Amanda Ripley

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

— Núria Añó