Math Quotes - Page 26

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

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

Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case.

If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?

Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

I would rather be right than rigorous.

Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.

Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either.

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

It's amazing to me that not only can we put a probe around Saturn and get images of its moons, but our math and physics are so freaking accurate we can say, "Hey, you know what? On this date at this time if we turn Cassini that way we'll see a moon over 2 million kilometers away pass in front of another one nearly 3 million kilometers away." Every morning, I have a 50/50 chance of finding my keys. That kinda puts things in perspective.