Math Quotes - Page 19

Markets are fundamentally volatile. No way around it. Your problem is not in the math. There is no math to get you out of having to experience uncertainty.

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.

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

I never use a computer.

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

How are the germs made into a ring? By adding and multiplying.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

All problems in mathematics are psychological.

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

Research demonstrates that autistic traits are distributed into the non-autistic population; some people have more of them, some have fewer. History suggests that many individuals whom we would today diagnose as autistic - some severely so - contributed profoundly to our art, our math, our science, and our literature.

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?

Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming number of widows and orphans and people who had been physically and emotionally damaged; every 10-year-old kid on the street knew how to dismantle a Kalashnikov in under a minute. I would flip through math textbooks intended for third grade, fourth grade, and they would include word problems such as, "If you have 100 grenades and 20 mujahideen, how many grenades per mujahideen do you get?" War has infiltrated every facet of life.