Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Kevin Ashton

The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.

Kevin Ashton

Saying no”, argues the author Kevin Ashton, “has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.

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.

Michio Kaku

Math is discovered. To be invented requires an inventor, but math exists outside of humanity. But ultimately, the laws of the universe will be reduced down to a single equation, perhaps no more than one inch long. But leaves the final question, where did that one inch equation come from?

Michio Kaku

Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.

Malcolm Gladwell

If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.

Johannes Kepler

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.

John von Neumann

The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything else the inception of modern mathematics; and the system of mathematical analysis, which is its logical development, still constitutes the greatest technical advance in exact thinking.

John von Neumann

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Martin Luther

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

Nick Carter

If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?

Sofia Kovalevskaya

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

Snoop Dogg

If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.

Jacque Fresco

The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete, our language in the future will change to a saner language where we have no argument in it, 'can there be such a language?' there is, when engineers talk to each other, it's not subject to interpretation, they use math, they use descriptive systems, if I interpreted what another engineer said in the way I think he meant it: you couldn't build bridges, dams, power transmission lines. The language has to have meaning

Henry Adams

In the one branch he most needed

Plato

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

Plato

God forever geometrizes.

Plato

Geometry existed before creation.

Plato

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

Phil McGraw

I just am not good at math.

Lance Armstrong

The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.

Lisa Randall

Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.

Lisa McMann

Bashful=Spanish, Miss Gardenia Doc=Psychology, Mr. Wang Happy=Chemistry 2, Mr. Durbin Dopey=English Lit., Mr. Purcell Dippy=Math, Mrs. Craig Dumbass=PE, Coach Crater

Lisa Kleypas

Yes, but you need to learn your maths." "I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything.

John Stuart Mill

The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.

James Joseph Sylvester

Mathematics is the music of reason.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.