Math Quotes - Page 25

We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk.

It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

When I was growing up, no one ever said to me, "You cannot do math because you're a girl." But, there was an understanding growing up that math and science were for boys. Somebody lied to me because Katherine Johnson woman exists, all of these women existed.

How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon.

Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States.

I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.

Wherever there is a number, there is beauty.

When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math. I was more interested in drawing in the margins than actually doing the work.

Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.

One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.

It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could not say the adverse chance was 1:10. Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad, and then this particular event would be quite likely.

The future is bulletproof The aftermath is secondary.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.

All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.