Math Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.”
– Mark Twain

“Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful”
– Martin Luther

“I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named “Further Maths“. It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance.”
– Maureen Johnson

“I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.”
– Maya Lin

“Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never, ever condemned you for your thoughts and desires.”
– Michael Grant

“Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.”
– Mike Norton

“The best way to be appreciative for your life is to live it; don’t die for any other reason but love. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.”
– Mike Norton

“Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school – this was in the 1960s.”
– Mitch Kapor

“My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am… okay, a lot.”
– Monique Coleman

“Look, I’m 40, I’m single, and I work in musical theater – you do the math!”
– Nathan Lane

“He walked straight out of college into the waiting arms of the Navy.
– Neal Stephenson

“What a shame,” signed the Dodecahedron. “They’re so very useful. Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with a tail a foot and a half long can build a dam twelve feet high and six feet wide in two days, all you would need to build Boulder Dam is a beaver sixty-eight feet long with a fifty-one-foot tail?”
– Norton Juster

“The language of categories is affectionately known as “abstract nonsense,” so named by Norman Steenrod. This term is essentially accurate and not necessarily derogatory: categories refer to “nonsense” in the sense that they are all about the “structure,” and not about the “meaning,” of what they represent.”
– Paolo Aluffi

“Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists, I discovered he only taught one class: Unlikely Maths. However, this was less than helpful in tracking him down, as according to the ledger, the time of the class was ‘now’ and the location was ‘everywhere.”
– Patrick Rothfuss

“I’ve actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I’m not half as sharp that I once was. I can’t even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.”
– Patrick Warburton

“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems”
– Paul Erdos

“God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.”
– Paul Erdos

“When a student comes and asks, “Should I become a mathematician?” the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn’t even ask.”
– Paul Halmos

“[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.”
– Paul Lockhart

“Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to?
– Paul Lockhart

“Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.”
– Paul Lockhart

“In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something practical like compound interest is going to get them excited? People enjoy fantasy, and that is just what mathematics can provide — a relief from daily life, an anodyne to the practical workaday world.”
– Paul Lockhart

“No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a “mixed number ” while 5/2 is an “improper fraction.” They’re EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?”
– Paul Lockhart

“So how does one go about proving something like this? It’s not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people; nor is it like a scientist testing a theory. This is a unique art form within the world of rational science. We are trying to craft a “poem of reason” that explains fully and clearly and satisfies the pickiest demands of logic, while at the same time giving us goosebumps.”
– Paul Lockhart

“The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was “out there” all along I just couldn’t see it. And now I can! This is really what keeps me in the math game– the chance that I might glimpse some kind of secret underlying truth, some sort of message from the gods.”
– Paul Lockhart

“Why don’t we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don’t trust them, that we think it’s too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?”
– Paul Lockhart

“While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.”
– Paul Ryan

“When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren’t going to keep on giving us cheap rates.”
– Paul Ryan

“Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation’s economic problems. And I’m going to level with you: We don’t have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this.”
– Paul Ryan

“Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.”
– Peter Lynch

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