Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Rennison

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

Lord Byron

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.

M. C. Escher

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics. Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.

Lord Kelvin

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

Lord Kelvin

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

Lord Kelvin

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

Haruki Murakami

What do I like about math? , When I've got figures in front of me, it relaxes me. Kind of like, everything fits where it belongs.

Hermann Weyl

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

Hermann Weyl

The introduction of numbers as coordinates is an act of violence.

Hermann Weyl

The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and set up his axioms as he pleases. But the question is will he get his fellow mathematician interested in the constructs of his imagination. We cannot help the feeling that certain mathematical structures which have evolved through the combined efforts of the mathematical community bear the stamp of a necessity not affected by the accidents of their historical birth.

Hermann Weyl

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

Hermann Weyl

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.

Hermann Weyl

Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the universal organ for world understanding through theoretical construction. Mathematics must therefore remain an essential element of the knowledge and abilities which we have to teach, of the culture we have to transmit, to the next generation.

Henri Poincare

...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know

Heather O'Rourke

Math - it's not my best subject.

Gustave Flaubert

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

Graydon Carter

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

John Locke

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

John L. Phillips

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.

John Banville

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and apprehensiveness; it was like watching a great mathematician wielding an infinitesimal calculus, his equations approaching nearer and still nearer to the null point.

Jodi Rell

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

Jeff Davis

It's not just simple math here. It's not just one for one.

Kelly Smith

It was good, really good. The math tutoring will help.

We are going to shut down their operations, and if he would do the math he would come back to the table,

Bertrand Russell

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

Alan Shepard

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

Charles M. Schulz

Only in math can you buy sixty cantaloupes and no one asks what the hell is wrong with you.

Casey Affleck

When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.

Elizabeth Moon

I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

Charlie Simpson

I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.

Bo Burnham

I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.

Augusten Burroughs

Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.