Math Quotes

My success rate is 100 percent. Do the math.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.

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

A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

Michael Harris opens the doors and gently guides you into a magic world. Once inside, you can't help but feel mesmerized, eager to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. And no wonder: a major thinker of our time is talking to you about math and so much more, like you've never heard before.

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.

It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.

I'm a strong believer that you have to have an equal opportunity to fail and to try things that are hard. I always tell my students, "Don't just take things that are easy for you. If you're really good at math, don't take just math. Take classes that make you write. If you're a really great writer, but bad at math, take math and make yourself work your way through it."

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.

The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.

The basic skills of math, English and writing are not enough, ... You must develop a basic system of values to form and guide the use of these skills. The true test will not be what you learned in college, but how you used what you learned.

When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.

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.

Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Earlier today, President Bush said Kerry will be a tough and hard-charging opponent. That explains why Bush's nickname for Kerry is math.

We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?

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

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of his imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. What he is to imagine is a matter for his own caprice; he is not thereby discovering the fundamental principles of the universe nor becoming acquainted with the ideas of God.

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.

Let me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don't trust the media. This is not a cage match. And, you look at the questions - "Donald Trump, are you a comic-book villain?" "Ben Carson, can you do math?" "John Kasich, will you insult two people over here?" "Marco Rubio, why don't you resign?" "Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?" How about talking about the substantive issues the people care about?

I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's a lot of new songs that no-one has heard yet, and that there's a lot of old songs that some very, very super hardcore fans have heard for sure - there are people that have been coming and seeing me play in bars in like 2002, and there are songs that those people heard.

Elementary and high school students will still be tested under the new law. There just won't be so much riding on the scores. Also the arts didn't disappear under the old law, No Child Left Behind. But, Christopher Woodside of the National Association for Music Education says with so much time spent testing math and reading, the arts suffered.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

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

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

One can't believe impossible things.

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.

...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned.