Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Friedrich Gauss

In mathematics there are no true controversies.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

Eugene Wigner

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

David Chalmers

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

Andy Rooney

I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.

Vanna Bonta

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.

Ron Beard

When he figures out how incredibly good he is, he'll be unstoppable.

Milan Khatri

They are flying blind. A lot of the figures are ancient.

Robert Teeter

There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.

Doug Painter

This is welcome news for the hunting industry and for conservationists. These figures show that our industry is out front in innovating new and better gear, and that hunters are willing to spend to further their enjoyment.

Audrey Eu

It's a resource question. We're trying to pass legislation, and we need to know what the figures are.

Kevin Burns

It was good information. I'm hoping we can use our figures to make us manage ours better and keep it. That's my personal opinion.

Carol Jordan

As a result, these newly released figures don't surprise us. Rather they remind us of the importance of the work that all of us are doing to improve the safety of women at this university.

Jonathan Loynes

August's UK public finances figures are, for once, rather better than expected.

Philip Scott

As our figures showed, our focus is on organic growth.

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.

Daniel Bernoulli

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

Anish Kapoor

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form

Albert Einstein

A mathematical equation stands forever

William Shakespeare

I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.

Stephen Cole Kleene

Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

Stephen Hawking

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.