Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Mathematics is the only true 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.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can American continue to maintain a high standard of living, including providing national security for its citizens.

Ellen Goodman

Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. ... The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose.

Epicurus

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

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

Henri Poincare

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

Heather O'Rourke

Math - it's not my best subject.

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

Bertrand Russell

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

Bertrand Russell

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

Bertrand Russell

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

Eugene Wigner

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

Kelly Smith

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

Havelock Ellis

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

Gordon Brown

I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.

Gyorgy Ligeti

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

QED - Quod erat demonstrandum.

Helen Keller

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

George Eliot

I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.

Izaak Walton

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

Isaac Barrow

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

Isaac Asimov

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

Isaac Asimov

Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.

Immanuel Kant

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

Jerry McNerney

I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.

Jerry McNerney

I enjoyed like nothing else working in pure math, discovering new formulas.

Jeffrey Rosen

The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination and confirmation, which remains an unbroken record, although Merrick Garland will surpass it in July, if my math is right. Anti-Semitism was definitely not the central reason for the opposition, which tended to focus more on his anti-corporate radicalism, but it was a theme.

Jacqueline Carey

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

Christine Pelosi

America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic.