Math Quotes - Page 4

• I think, therefore I laugh.

  John Allen Paulos

  Education, Knowledge, Thinking

  John Allen Paulos (2007). “Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up”, p.2, Hill and Wang

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• There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

  Aristotle

  Circles, Strange

  Aristotle, (2014). “The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, One-Volume Digital Edition”, p.2254, Princeton University Press

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• I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

  Winston Churchill

  Feelings, Let It Go, Dinner

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.

  J. W. N. Sullivan

  Imagination, World, Limits

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• A few honest men are better than numbers.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Education, Truth, Honesty

  Letter to Sir William Spring, September 1643, in Thomas Carlyle 'Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches' (2nd ed., 1846)

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• I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

  Rene Descartes

  Science, Discovery, Judging

  Rene Descartes (2007). “The Geometry of Rene Descartes”, p.240, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.79, Harvard University Press

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• Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

  Galileo Galilei

  Statistics, Metrics, Mathematics

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• We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Humility, Reality, Numbers

  Letter to Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, 1830.

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• One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

  Maxim Gorky

  Girl, Science, Fifty

  "The Zykovs". Book by Maxim Gorky, 1914.

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• Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

  Felix Klein

  Confused, Numbers, Curves

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• USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Science, Usa

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• 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

  Smart, Mean, Thinking

  "Actress Danica McKellar Solves For 'X'". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. August 6, 2010.

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• One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.

  Danica McKellar

  Beautiful, Art, People

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• Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.

  Danica McKellar

  Sexy, Fun, Smart

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• Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.

  Danica McKellar

  Understanding, Height, Faces

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• Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Levels, Conscious, Related

  "Maestro of Broadway". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, Science, Discovery

  "The Organization of Thought" (1917)

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• Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Mind, Purpose

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.160, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

  Mark Haddon

  Taken, Thinking, Numbers

  Marilyn Herbert, Mark Haddon (2006). “Discusses the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders”, p.50, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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• God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.

  Paul Erdos

  Beautiful, Book, Proof

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• Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.

  Louis Zukofsky

  Mind, Infinite, States

  Louis Zukofsky, Barry Ahearn (2011). “"A"”, p.46, New Directions Publishing

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• I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

  Jacqueline Carey

  Events, Patterns, Behavior

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.157, Macmillan

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• I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

  Winston Churchill

  Feelings, Let It Go, Venus

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

  Janos Bolyai

  Teaching, Strange, Wonderful

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