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| >John Louis von Neumann |
| Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ~ Albert Einstein |
| Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose. ~ Albert Einstein |
| I don’t agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure. ~ Stanislaw J. Lec, |
| If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them. ~ Phil Pastoret |
| [A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. ~ Evan Esar, |
| "Every minute dies a man, Every minute one is born;" I need hardly point out to you that this calculation would tend to keep the sum total of the world’s population in a state of perpetual equipoise, whereas it is a well-known fact that the said sum total is constantly on the increase. I would therefore take the liberty of suggesting that in the next edition of your excellent poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected as follows: "Every moment dies a man, And one and a sixteenth is born." I may add that the exact figures are 1.067, but something must, of course, be conceded to the laws of metre. ~ Charles Babbage |
| Math is radical! ~ Bumper Sticker |
| There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities – potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry – that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics. ~ Gregory Benford, |
| It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class. ~ Author Unknown |
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| If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three. ~ Author Unknown |
| Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. ~ Carl Sandburg |
| Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. ~ Carl Sandburg |
| If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi. ~ Richard Preston |
| 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 |
| The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. ~ S. Gudder |
| The human mind has never invented a labor-saving machine equal to algebra. ~ Author Unknown |
| 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, |
| Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics. ~ Dean Schlicter |
| It is not the job of mathematicians… to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. ~ Samuil Shchatunovski |
| Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms. ~ Carl Boyer |
| 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. ~ Eric Bell, |
| Sometimes it is useful to know how large your zero is. ~ Author Unknown |
| The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ~ Eric Hoffer, |
| Mathematics is the only good metaphysics. ~ William Thomson Baron Kelvin of Largs |
| 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 |
| Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. ~ Gottfried Leibniz |
| 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. ~ Author Unknown |
| To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas. ~ Ivars Peterson |
| With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, |