Math Quotes

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

Wherever there is number, there is beauty.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

We are justified in calling numbers a free creation of the human mind.

... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.

I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

To ask the right question is harder than to answer it.

Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.

My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse. Kat cleared her throat. "And women," he added. "Math women.

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

You burros have calculus in your blood.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system ... itself.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

Math is easy; design is hard.

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.

Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.

As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.