Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anish Kapoor

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

Ally Carter

I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse. Kat cleared her throat. "And women," he added. "Math women.

Ann Druyan

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

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.

Adam Smith

I have no faith in political arithmetic.

Albert Einstein

I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

Albert Einstein

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

Albert Einstein

The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are known only to him who has experienced them himself.

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.

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.

Jane Austen

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

Jascha Heifetz

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

I have created a new universe from nothing.

I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

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.

Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

Charles Darwin

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

Charles Darwin

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.