Math Quotes - Page 41

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.

The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.

If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed.

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.

In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it ... But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don't vote on this.

God forever geometrizes.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

You know there's always that kid in your class — and every class has one — the kid who draws all the time and is really good? That was not me. I was a lousy draftsman. But as soon as I figured out that I could make things come alive, like using the corners of my math book to make flipbooks, I was hooked.

I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.

So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people; nor is it like a scientist testing a theory. This is a unique art form within the world of rational science. We are trying to craft a "poem of reason" that explains fully and clearly and satisfies the pickiest demands of logic, while at the same time giving us goosebumps.

The library is the mathematician's laboratory.

It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists.

A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.

A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?

Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics. Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.

Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.