Math Quotes

You can't plan the kind of deep love that results in children. Fatherhood was not a conscious decision. It was part of the wonderful ride I was on. All the math finally worked.

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed.

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

Inequality is the cause of all local movements.

Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.

If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?

God forever geometrizes.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.

The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.

I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.

This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

There is no nature at an instant.

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.

When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

I was just kind of doing the math.

Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That's a fraction.

When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."