Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Russell Hoban

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

Rudolph A. Marcus

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

John Neumann

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

All mathematics is tautology.

Paul Erdos

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

Lewis Carroll

Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

Gabriel Marcel

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

Maria Edgeworth

Confidence is the best proof of love.

Patrick Ness

Faith with proof is no faith at all.

Peter Greenaway

Too many proofs spoil the truth.

David Ricardo

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

Robert Keats

Where's the proof here? I have no facts, just allegations.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

Ben Bradlee

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

Karen Osborne

This is identification at the polls, not proof of citizenship.

Jim Ramstad

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

Karl Marx

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

Margaret Atwood

A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

Lady Gaga

If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don’t know if I would be the algorithm. I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

Paul Dirac

It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

Paul McCartney

Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.

Chad Kroeger

There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.

Charles Lindbergh

Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.

Augusten Burroughs

I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.