Math Quotes

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.

I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams."

In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.

I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.

The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.

When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.

I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math.

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.

Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

I don't know if the police of naming statements would agree with this.

If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.

Yeah, Silver and his math are jokes, because math has a liberal bias. After all, math is the reason Mitt Romney's tax plan doesn't add up.

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.

All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.

All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven.

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.

No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.

Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.

The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.

It is a mistake to suppose that requiring the nonmathematical to take more advanced math courses will enhance their understanding and not merely exacerbate their sense of inadequacy.

It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

I just love math and most people don't.

I was always good at math and science and physics.

I'm no quitter, unless it comes to human relationships or math and science.

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?

"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."

Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.

I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another.

I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.

The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is a meaningful component that makes a lot of sense.

Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.

The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.