Math Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Albert Einstein,
Bertrand Russell
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| Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero. |
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| How many times can you subtract 7 from 83, and what is left afterwards? You can subtract it as many times as you want, and it leaves 76 every time. |
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| If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. |
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| In the binary system we count on our fists instead of on our fingers. |
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| Infinity is a floorless room without walls or ceiling. |
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| Sometimes it is useful to know how large your zero is. |
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| The human mind has never invented a labor-saving machine equal to algebra. |
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| Trigonometry is a sine of the times. |
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| It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class. |
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| 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. |
| - Francis Bacon |
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| Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that? |
| - Lewis Carroll |
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| The different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. |
| - Lewis Carroll |
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| Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so. |
| - Robertson Davies |
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| As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| God does not care about our mathematical difficulties; He integrates empirically. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| A mathematician is a scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. |
| - Evan Esar |
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| The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede. |
| - Edward Gibbon |
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| I know that two and two make four - & should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 & 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure. |
| - George Gordon |
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| 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. |
| - Robert A. Heinlein |
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| The mathematics are usually considered as being the very antipodes of Poesy. Yet Mathesis and Poesy are of the closest kindred, for they are both works of the imagination. |
| - Thomas Hill |
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| The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. |
| - Eric Hoffer |
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| I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure. |
| - Stanislaw J. Lec |
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| Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. |
| - Henri Poincaré |
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| Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. |
| - Carl Sandburg |
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| Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. |
| - Carl Sandburg |
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| Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful? |
| - Caius Plinius Secundus |
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| I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. |
| - Calvin Trillin |
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| 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. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Uneven numbers are the gods' delight. |
| - Virgil |
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| A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars. That's subtraction. |
| - Mae West |
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| Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings. |
| - Alfred North Whitehead |
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| With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. |
| - Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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