Math Quotes - Page 28

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

Numerical precision is the very soul of science.

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

God ever arithmetizes.

The higher arithmetic presents us with an inexhaustible store of interesting truths - of truths, too, which are not isolated, but stand in a close internal connection, and between which, as our knowledge increases, we are continually discovering new and sometimes wholly unexpected ties.

There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.

I was x years old in the year x2.

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

I don't believe we're hateful. I think mostly we're just asleep, but the math adds up the same.

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.

I don't believe in mathematics.

Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.

Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to do so. Our system is quite good at producing reliable theorems that can be solidly backed up. It's just that the reliability does not primarily come from mathematicians formally checking formal arguments; it comes from mathematicians thinking carefully and critically about mathematical ideas.

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation).

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from external affairs. Some practice it as if using a drug.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.