Math Quotes

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].

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

The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.

Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples.

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

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

Number was the substance of all things.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.

Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.

The polynomial xn−1 is a force of nature.

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

All problems in mathematics are psychological.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

Geometry existed before creation.

The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

If Math was a woman, we'd be married already.

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.

100% of the people who give 110% do not understand math.

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk.

The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

Mathematicians are born, not made.

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .

In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

A great deal more is known than has been proved.

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.

Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.