Math Quotes - Page 15

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

Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends." My reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I wish I had." In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), "It was Littlewood who said..."

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.

In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.

There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond the first page.

If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you're enumerate, you're going to be a klutz. The good thing about business is that you don't have to know any higher math.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.

There are no sects in geometry.

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

Numbers rule the universe.

The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes or that comes; in about 30 minutes, it's going to be over and have an ending. So film has become a mathematical solution. And that is boring, because art is not mathematical.

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.