Mathematical Logic Quotes - Page 2

• There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who cannot.

  George Carlin

  People, Three, Kind

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• Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

  John von Neumann

  Math, Science, Men

  Quoted in Gary Zukav, The DancingWu Li Masters (1979)

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  There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Funny, Witty, Truth

  Attributed to Disraeli by Mark Twain in his 'Autobiography' (1924) vol. 1, p. 246

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• Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

  Charles Babbage

  Failure, Errors, Data

  Attributed to Charles Babbage in William Kenneth Richmond "The Education Industry", 1969.

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• We never know what we are talking about.

  Karl Popper

  Math, Talking, Mathematics

  Karl Popper (2005). “Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography”, p.26, Routledge

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• The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Spirit, Madness

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Computer, Theory

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist”

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• The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

  G. H. Hardy

  Beautiful, Math, Patterns

  A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)

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• I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

  Thomas Mann

  Math, Lust, Flesh

  Thomas Mann (1992). “The Magic Mountain”

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• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

  John Adams

  Education, Philosophy, War

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin

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• 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

  Funny, Humorous, Math

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• Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.

  Saint Augustine

  God, Work, Math

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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

  Math, Imagination, World

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• Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mean, Science, Littles

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.626, Psychology Press

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• Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.

  Henry John Stephen Smith

  Math, Use, May

  Quoted in Alexander Macfarlane, Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century (1916). "Pure mathematics; may it never be of use to any man!" is cited as the toast of the Mathematical Society of England in Science, 10 Dec. 1886.

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• Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

  Morris Kline

  Ignorance, Math, Statistics

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• A painting is more than the sum of its parts

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Logical Reasoning, Greek, Painting

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.34, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

  Daniel Bernoulli

  Math, Science, Would Be

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• A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Math, Feelings, Intelligence

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• Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, Science, Math

  Orthodoxy ch. 2 (1908)

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• The world is more than the sum of its suffering.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Greek, Suffering

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• I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

  Lord Byron

  Math, Two, Giving

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• A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

  Margaret Atwood

  Greek, Fists, Apprenticeship

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.401, Anchor

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• Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

  Rene Descartes

  Math, Men, Numbers

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• One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed.

  Leon Henkin

  Teacher, Math, Answers

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