Math Quotes - Page 33

• It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Invention, Observation, Truism

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• Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.

  Paul Erdos

  Problem, Ready, Mathematics

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• To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.

  Pafnuty Chebyshev

  Demand, Cows, Bulls

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• The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and the philosopher (who is in this matter a layman too) imagine, substantially unalterable, but subject like every art to unnoticed changes form epoch to epoch. The development of the great arts ought never to be treated without an (assuredly not unprofitable) side-glance at contemporary mathematics.

  Oswald Spengler

  Art, Imagination, Style

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1950). “Form and actuality”

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• The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

  Norbert Wiener

  Success, Games, Chess Game

  "Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth". Book by Norbert Wiener, 1964.

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• . . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Men, Easy, Said

  Margaret Mitchell (1975). “Gone With the Wind”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Art, Hard Work, Students

  "Natasha Bedingfield Flashback". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. June 22, 2008.

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• Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.

  Rob Brydon

  Thinking, Two, Done

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like "I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus."

  Eliza Coupe

  Teacher, Kids, Class

  "Eliza Coupe on the Comedic Origins of Happy Endings, Her Passion for Michael Fassbender, and her Obsession with Ace Ventura". GQ Interview, www.ucbcomedy.com. February 2012.

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• Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Writing, Thinking, Ego

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• I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.

  Oleg Deripaska

  Winning, Discipline, Competition

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• I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Writing, Thinking, Would Be

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• I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times.

  Stephen Furst

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com.

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• Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.

  John Maeda

  Art, Growing Up, Two

  "Jobs Added Art to STEM to Create Steam" by John Maeda, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Once you understand that there's a spiritual math, add soul to the science and subtract the riff-raff. 24-7-365, cause 9 to 5 ain't alive.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Soul

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• We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk.

  Alice Cooper

  Education, Dirty, Tests

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• I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.

  Pauley Perrette

  Tattoo, Numbers, Design

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• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  Gary Lineker

  Football, Games, Would Be

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• As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

  Nicholas Stern

  Trying, Physics, Scientist

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• All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've done. I've loved numbers since I was two or three, and I get really excited about them. Now, I'm allowing myself to get excited about things. If you're doing it for a TV network or any major corporation, you have to put a lid on it a little.

  Carol Vorderman

  Home, Numbers, Two

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• I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.

  Randall Munroe

  Reality, Thinking, Giving

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• The interaction between math and physics is a two-way process, with each of the two subjects drawing from and inspiring the other. At different times, one of them may take the lead in developing a particular idea, only to yield to the other subject as focus shifts. But altogether, the two interact in a virtuous circle of mutual influence.

  Edward Frenkel

  Circles, Ideas, Two

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• Michael Harris opens the doors and gently guides you into a magic world. Once inside, you can't help but feel mesmerized, eager to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. And no wonder: a major thinker of our time is talking to you about math and so much more, like you've never heard before.

  Edward Frenkel

  Doors, Talking, Magic

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• In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Teenage, Years, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Who cares for Algebra?Who delights in solving math?I only want to live my lifeAlong the creative path.

  Jennifer Niven

  Creative, Who Cares, Delight

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