Math Quotes And Sayings

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“Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated with concepts introduced previously by means of precise definitions.”
– Geoge Cantor (1845-1918)

“I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.”
– Gyorgy Legeti

“People think that the arts are optional and they aren’t. They teach a level of emotional depth that’s equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there’s no calculator for human interaction.”
– Hal Sparks

“Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as water flows from high to low over the shortest possible distance, figures can only flow in one direction. You just have to keep your eye on them for the route to reveal itself. That’s all it takes. You don’t have to do a thing. Just concentrate your attention and keep your eyes open, and the figures make everything clear to you. In this whole, wide world, the only thing that treats me so kindly is math.”
– Haruki Murakami

“Math – it’s not my best subject.”
– Heather O’Rourke

“Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well prepared by labour, both conscious and subconscious.”
– Henri Poincare (1854-1912)

“Mathematicians are born, not made.”
– Henri Poincare (1854-1912)

“Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects. Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. Content to them is irrelevant: they are interested in form only.”
– Henri Poincare (1854-1912)

“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].”
– Henri Poincare (1854-1912)

“God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists since its consistency cannot be proved.”
– Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl (1885-1955)

“My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.”
– Herschel Walker

“A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence”
– Howard Eves

“I don’t think our music has much to do with math rock.”
– Ian Williams

“Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.”
– Isaac Asimov

“One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge.”
– Isaac Asimov

“Do you mean ter tell me,” he growled at the Dursleys, “that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin’ abou’—about ANYTHING?”
– J.K. Rowling

“I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower”
– Jacqueline Carey

“What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?”
– James Matthew Barrie

“I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.”
– James Van Der Beek

“I don’t believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won’t persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.”
– Janna Levin

“My math is so fuzzy you should pet it. Four minus two isn’t two, because between two and four minus two is an infinite number of numbers.?”
– Jarod Kintz

“The accumulation of birthdays is the leading cause of death in the United States and other large land masses. Now while that may not be 100% accurate, it is at least 88% accurate. Actually, the last sentence itself might not have been 100% accurate, but I’m 88% sure it was. Maybe I should just brush up on fractions and percentages before making statements that are liable to hurt the funeral industry, because if birthdays aren’t killing people then it’s bad for the mortality business. And if you can’t trust somebody to die, then you can’t trust somebody. But I’m somebody you can trust. I’m at least 88% trustworthy, at least 88% of the time. ?”
– Jarod Kintz

“The only reason I don’t know more about love is because there just isn’t more to know. In fact, I’ve reduced love to a mathematical formula: Hdgk(X)=H2k(X,Q)?Hk,k(X). Actually, that’s not right. That’s the statement piece of the Hodge conjecture, but I’m sure you already knew that.?”
– Jarod Kintz

“I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it’s socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of math, whereas it is a shameful thing to be illiterate.”
– Jennifer Ouellette

“The President’s call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party’s leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn’t add up.”
– Jim Clyburn

“If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.”
– Jim Courier

“You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.”
– Joan Cusack

“In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.”
– Joanna Newsom

“The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.”
– Jodi Rell

“Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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