Math Quotes

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

Numbers rule the universe.

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

The solution "cost me study that robbed me of rest for an entire night."

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

How are the germs made into a ring? By adding and multiplying.

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

Markets are fundamentally volatile. No way around it. Your problem is not in the math. There is no math to get you out of having to experience uncertainty.

Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths.

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers.

As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.

Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].

We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.