Famous math quotations

   The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.  Nice Word by Eric Bell, The Search for Truth

   But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.  Meaningful Quotation by Harold Marston Morse

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings, and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to sense tried by the present-day kaleidoscope of events.  Good Quote by Morris Kline, Mathematics in Western Culture (Kline is quoting Alfred North Whitehead - refuge from.

   The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.  Wise Phrase by Euclid

   It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class.  Wise Phrase by Author Unknown

   Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.  Famous Saying by Carl Sandburg, Arithmetic

   Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.  Nice Word by Eric T. Bell, The Development of Mathematics

   If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.  Meaningful Quotation by Richard Preston

   The human mind has never invented a labor-saving machine equal to algebra.  Good Quote by Author Unknown

   Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.  Wise Phrase by Percy William Bridgman, The Way Things Are

   Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.  Wise Phrase by Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

   We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.  Famous Saying by Mark Twain

   In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.  Nice Word by Hermann Hankel

   If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.  Meaningful Quotation by John Louis von Neumann

   Pure mathematics is the world's best game. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It's free. It can be played anywhere - Archimedes did it in a bathtub.  Good Quote by Richard J. Trudeau, Dots and Lines

   [A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.  Wise Phrase by Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary

   So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.  Wise Phrase by Francis Bacon, Of Studies

   Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.  Famous Saying by Author Unknown

   If a healthy minded person takes an interest in science, he gets busy with his mathematics and haunts the laboratory.  Nice Word by W.S. Franklin

   Infinity is a floorless room without walls or ceiling.  Meaningful Quotation by Author Unknown

   I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness....  Good Quote by Stendhal (Henri Beyle), The Life of Henri Brulard

   Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?  Wise Phrase by Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

   The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.  Wise Phrase by John Kemeny

   [T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.  Famous Saying by Lewis Carroll

   In the binary system we count on our fists instead of on our fingers.  Nice Word by Author Unknown



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