Math Quotes

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.

If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.

Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the fundamentalism of tomorrow.

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!

Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.

Whatever you can, count.

The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens.

To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the anatomical members of my Academy.

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune.

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.

[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.

The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous.

That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.

...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step further - our mathematicians do not know mathematics.

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.

I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.

I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to a liberal arts degree and got my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and it made sense.

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation

In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

The U.S. ranks 25th in math and 21st in science. We are woefully behind. The only way to change this situation is through public-private partnerships.

When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

Math is the language of the universe.