Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

Albert Einstein

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

Alfred North Whitehead

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.

Alfred North Whitehead

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

Alfred North Whitehead

The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.

Alfred North Whitehead

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

Alfred North Whitehead

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

Alfred North Whitehead

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

Albrecht Durer

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

Aldous Huxley

Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.

Albert Einstein

Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.

Albert Einstein

The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of the universe. The successful candidate will have an excellent command of mass, energy, space, time and some maths. Bonus paid upon completion of proofs

Albert Einstein

To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein

A mathematical equation stands forever

Alexander Grothendieck

I am not really doing research, just trying to cultivate myself.

Alexander Grothendieck

The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician, the possibility of making explicit, elegant computations has always come out by itself, as a byproduct of a thorough conceptual understanding of what was going on. Thus I never bothered about whether what would come out would be suitable for this or that, but just tried to understand - and it always turned out that understanding was all that mattered.

A. N. Wilson

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

Robert Scoble

Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt.

Adam Smith

I have no faith in political arithmetic.

I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

Mark Cuban

As processor speeds and shared processors create cheap unlimited processing power we will be able to turn our bodies into a math equation that can be crossed against the properties of medicine and nature to create medicine unique to each individual.

Colum McCann

You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven...

Conan O'Brien

Earlier today, President Bush said Kerry will be a tough and hard-charging opponent. That explains why Bush's nickname for Kerry is math.

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.

David Blaine

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

Danica McKellar

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

Danica McKellar

I just love math and most people don't.

Danica McKellar

When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.

Danica McKellar

Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

Danica McKellar

I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.

Danica McKellar

Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.

Danica McKellar

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.