Math Quotes

I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.

Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

Physics is much too hard for physicists.

Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very pleasant things to do.

If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.

The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility.

I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity.

A new study found that students who are taught abstinence end up with better math scores. Of course, if you join the math team, the abstinence takes care of itself.

My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.

The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.

Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.

Mathematics should be fun.

Mathematics is for lazy people.

Man follows only phantoms.

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.

It's the usual Socialist fiscal math of 1 + 1 = You're paying, so who cares.

Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired to reply, "If it isn't fun, why do it?"

There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned.

Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about was how to reach them!

No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.

If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

I am ill at these numbers.

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.