Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig Wittgenstein

All mathematics is tautology.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

There can never be surprises in logic.

Nora Roberts

You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize that the new comes from here and gets imitated elsewhere. And it is not thanks to universities, which obviously claim a lot more credit than their accomplishments warrant. Like Britain in the Industrial Revolution, America's asset is, simply, risk taking and the use of optionality, this remarkable ability to engage in rational forms fo trial and error, with no comparative shame in failing again, starting again, and repeating failure.

Morris Kline

The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings, and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to senses tried by the present day kaleidoscope of events.

Marissa Mayer

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

May Sarton

I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

Maya Lin

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

Maya Lin

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

John Polkinghorne

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

Norman Cousins

Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Norbert Wiener

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

Norbert Wiener

Am I really a good mathematician?

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

Gabriel Marcel

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

Joe Bastianich

Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts.

John Green

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.

Leo Tolstoy

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Leo Tolstoy

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

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.

Lewis Black

Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!

Lewis Carroll

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

Lewis Carroll

Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

Karl Rove

You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

Karl Popper

We never know what we are talking about.

John Maynard Smith

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

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.

Joseph de Maistre

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.