Math Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“I obey the laws of physics in private. I burn the principles of mathematics in public.”
– Bauvard

“Spending when the math‘s not there and the numbers aren’t there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it’s filled with IOUs because the government‘s been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.”
– Ben Quayle

“They say you can’t square the circle, and it makes me think, ‘Why wouldn’t market areas be round in the first place?’ That’s sound city planning.”
– Benson Bruno

“I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.”
– Bertrand Russell

“Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true”
– Bertrand Russell

“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”
– Bertrand Russell

“Mathematics possesses not only truth, but also supreme beauty”
– Bertrand Russell

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty; a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture”
– Bertrand Russell

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.”
– Bertrand Russell

“I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.”
– Betrand Russell

“In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.”
– Bill Gates

“Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise they are inaccurate and insufferable, for they are only right when the principles are quite clear”
– Blaise Pascal

“Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.”
– Bruno Mars

“It can only be our familiarity with soap bubbles from our earliest recollections, causing us to accept their existence as a matter of course, that prevents most of us from being seriously puzzled as to why they can be blown at all.”
– C. V. (Charles Vernon) Boys

“I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.”
– Calvin Trillin

“Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics”
– Carl Friedrich Gauss

“God does arithmetic.”
– Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)-German

“Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.”
– Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)-German

“Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics.”
– Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)-German

“God ever arithmetizes.”
– Carl Gustav Jacobi (1804-1851)

“Mathematics is the science of what is clear by itself.”
– Carl Gustav Jacobi (1804-1851)

“We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.”
– Cathy McMorris

“Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.”
– Cathy McMorris

“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.”
– Cathy McMorris

“The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“I had higher math SATs than in English – yet I became an English major in college.”
– Christie Hefner

“I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that’s just a bone – so even if I lose weight that’s not going to change anything. That’s how I look. That’s my shape. Do the math.”
– Christina Hendricks

“Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origins, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony are made, so that God is honored and praised but mankind is moved to devotion, virtue, joy, and sorrow.”
– Christoph Wolff

“Mom actually said that?” Cassie’s face shown with happiness. “She always hated my math!”
– Clare B. Dunkle

“Find your self-respect now. Don’t dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It’s so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.”
– Danica McKellar

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