Mathematics Quote by William Dunham

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

“This was one of the problems with math department graduates. When it came to areas they weren't interested in, their memory was surprisingly short-lived.”

— Haruki Murakami

“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

“Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned a smattering…

— Isaac Asimov

“But aside from Willy’s skill at learning another language which his father did not know enough to appreciate, his only distinction in schooling was…

— Sam Wellman

“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

“He remembered the days when he’d been able to do extraordinary things simply by imagining them. Now it no longer seemed possible. The”

— Shae Ford

“He stared back like I was an advanced math problem he couldn't interpret.”

— Mia Sheridan

“I am a mathematician, sir. I never permit myself to think.”

— John Dickson Carr

“He divides his time between thinking about sex and thinking about mathematics.”

— Neal Stephenson

“Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He doesn't seem to mind at all that he's stupid about math.”

— Wendy Lichtman