Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

Carl Sagan

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

Carl Friedrich Gauss

In mathematics there are no true controversies.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

Charles Hermite

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

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.

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.

Anaxagoras

There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.

David Chalmers

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

Andy Rooney

I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.

I was a mathematics major and really into 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.

Bill Gates

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.

With 43 teams here, you do the math.

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

Gabriel Marcel

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

Lord Kelvin

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

Henri Poincare

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

Eugene Wigner

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

QED - Quod erat demonstrandum.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Georg Cantor

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.

Lewis Carroll

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

Gustave Flaubert

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

John Maynard Smith

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

Paul Erdos

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Max Black

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.