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.

Carl Sagan

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

Alan Watts

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

Charles Sanders Peirce

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

Charles Hermite

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

William Booth

If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do.

Richard Bach

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

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.

Robert Keats

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

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?

Aristotle

All proofs rest on premises.

Ben Bradlee

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

Mariella Frostrup

Personally, I think there's a lot to recommend being friends with your ex, and I'm glad to admit that I'm living proof of its possibility.

Kurt Vonnegut

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.

Emma Biel

I worked very hard. Just look at my hands. I'm proof that it isn't work that kills you.

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.

William Shakespeare

I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.

Bertrand Russell

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

Albert Einstein

A mathematical equation stands forever

Anish Kapoor

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

Daniel Bernoulli

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

Karl Marx

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.