Math Quotes - Page 6

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.

A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.

You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system ... itself.

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.

There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who cannot.

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their beautiful embroidery, the women are given financial aid and classes in math and literacy. The scarves are all stunning and one of a kind.

Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President's refusal to heed the calls of governors for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse. Kat cleared her throat. "And women," he added. "Math women.

I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand perspective. It's a sense of being awed by existence that almost obliterates the self. Religious people think of it as an essentially religious experience but it's not. It's an essentially human experience.

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?