Mathematics Quote by Yōko Ogawa

“Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or…

— Yoko Ogawa

“Slim and neatly groomed, he looked like a really sexy mathematician unaware that he was a prime number. I wanted to unbutton his shirt,…

— Marta Acosta

“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

“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

“Which was strange, like watching a tangle of loose threads unravel and plait themselves into a single braided cord, stretching ahead into the future.”

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“There's something very satisfying about numbers. Numbers are what they are. They are very straightforward. Unlike people.”

— Joy Fielding

“Maybe that is what beauty was, for humans. Accidents, imperfections, placed inside a pretty pattern. Asymmetry. The defiance of mathematics.”

— Matt Haig

“...but numbers didn't lie. That was the reason I loved math. It was the only pure form of honesty left in this world.”

— Teresa Mummert

“In my imagination, I saw the creator of the universe sitting in some distant corner of the sky, weaving a pattern of delicate lace…

— Yōko Ogawa

“He loved numbers, their patterns and secrets, the way something complex could be reduced to something simple. In mathematics, unlike life, there was always…

— Lisa Kleypas

“I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication…

— Mark Twain

“Numbers arrange themselves the way numbers will, just as a word will, a story.”

— Katharine Haake