Mathematics Quotes

And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but ever possible world, must conform.

I guess a sock is also a geometric shape—technically—but I don't know what you'd call it. A socktagon?

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth.

A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser.

The impulse to all movement and all form is given by [the golden ratio], since it is the proportion that summarizes in itself the additive and the geometric, or logarithmic, series.

Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.

Mathematically, the purpose of life is to produce a result. In human terms, it is called Happiness.

Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.

The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.

I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?

The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.

The distance between your Dreams and Reality is inversely proportional to your Efforts.

Teaching mathematics, like teaching any art, requires the ability to inspire the student. Inspiration requires marketing, and marketing requires stirring communication.

In a Sense, we all are Time Travelers! We are Surviving each and every Active Time-Point in this Timeline.......

This is the team. We're trying to go to the moon. If you can't put someone up, please don't put them down.

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.

If you formulate your question properly, mathematics gives you the answer

If our 14 billion year cosmic history were scaled to 1 year, then 100, 000 years of human history would be 4 minutes, and a 100 year life would be 0.2 seconds.

If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.

The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood.

I don't believe any scientific field to be superior to another.

With mathematics we stand precisely at that intersection of bondage and freedom that is the essence of the human itself.

Two wrongs never add up to a right. But it's okay, I always sucked at maths.

What is important is to deeply understand things and their relations to each other. This is where intelligence lies. The fact of being quick or slow isn’t really relevant.

To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic.

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

You know, When does a girl asks you for a selfie ?When she got the solution to the biggest mathematical equation of this Society.

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

Without mathematics, your world becomes foggy! For a clear vision, you need to be educated in the Temple of Mathematics!

The language of mathematics, scientific observations, and our perceptivity together knit the window to reality.

An arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war.

Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.

Life is a linear equation in which you can't cross multiply! If you think you can do it, you can do it. If you think you can't do it, you can't do it. It's a simple formula!

Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view.

She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation, and vagueness of the finest prose.

A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

I call you my soulmate because I lost myself in you and then found myself through you. Sure, when you are gone, I will be a fraction but the common denominator has always been me.

Maths is at only one remove from magic.

Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.

It is the story that matters not just the ending.

What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God?

If the institution of mathematics told a story . . . how would it end?

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?

For the first time in his life, he decided to focus on his math homework.

He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead.

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses …