Math Quotes

Math Quote of the day

If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.

"Ganas is all you need."

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

I am not really doing research, just trying to cultivate myself.

In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.

Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

In order to solve this differential equation you look at it until a solution occurs to you.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

Now I will have less distraction.

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

Wherever there is number, there is beauty.

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.