Math Quotes And Sayings

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“I didn’t really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.”
– Phil Foglio

“Adam and Eve are like imaginary number, like the square root of minus one… If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.”
– Philip Pullman

“All the effects of nature are only mathematical results of a small number of immutable laws.”
– Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827)

“The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics”
– Plato

“… arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.”
– Plato (429-347 B. C. E), Plato’s Academy

“Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.”
– Plato (429-347 B. C. E), Plato’s Academy

“Mathematics is like draughts [checkers] in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.”
– Plato (429-347 B. C. E), Plato’s Academy

“All was numbers.”
– Pythagoras (572-497 B.C. E) and Pythagorean

“Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.”
– Pythagoras (572-497 B.C. E) and Pythagorean

“Number rules the universe.”
– Pythagoras (572-497 B.C. E) and Pythagorean

“Number was the substance of all things.”
– Pythagoras (572-497 B.C. E) and Pythagorean

“Some people believe in imaginary friends. I believe in imaginary numbers.”
– R.M. ArceJaeger

“?”There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else — but persistent.”
– Raoul Bott

“… the two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.”
– Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

“Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.”
– Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

“It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.”
– Richard Dawkins

“Sometimes in studying Ramanujan’s work, [George Andrews] said at another time, “I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package.”
– Robert Kanigel

“In life two negatives don’t make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.”
– Robert McKee

“I’ve taught statistics, math courses and what I’ve found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you’ll have one group of kids doing well.”
– Robert Sternberg

“The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful in Science, and all that is beautiful in Art.”
– Robert Turnbull

“There is a largeness about mathematics that transcends race and time; mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the stars.”
– Robert Turnbull

“. . . I still wouldn’t be able to control myself around him, and I’m math geek enough to know that equation doesn’t work out.”
– Robin Brande

“For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics”
– Roger Bacon

“If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics…”
– Roger Bacon

“… mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.”
– Roger Bacon (1214-1294)

“Mathematics is the door and key to the sciences.”
– Roger Bacon (1214-1294)

“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.”
– Roman Payne

“During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.”
– Rudolph A. Marcus

“The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.”
– S. Gudder

“The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.”
– Saint Augustine of Hippo

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