Quotes About Mathematics

I take after my mother more than my father in terms of personality. My mother's a worrier, and I'm a worrier. Both were very good with numbers and mathematics, so I kind of got that from both of them.

You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

una cifra, pensó cuando volvió a quedarse solo, siempre es aproximativa, no existe la cifra correcta, sólo los nazis creían en la cifra correcta y los profesores de matemática elemental, sólo los sectarios, los locos de las pirámides, los recaudadores de impuestos (Dios acabe con ellos), los numerólogos que leían el destino por cuatro perras creían

If you add infinity to infinity, you get infinity. If you mix the sublime and the creepy, what you end up with is creepy. Right?

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.

Mathematics, after all, lives on unambiguous exactitude, whereas there are types of art that die of it.

...Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth.

Symmetry is only a property of dead things.

statistical fiction

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

one explanation did not rule out the other, that charged electrons could be spirits, that nothing ruled out anything else, that mathematics was a rigorous form of madness

He had a reasonable job as an actuary (whatever that was)

It is said that Mathematics is the language of nature. If so, Physics is its poetry.

What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.

It was believed that all creation came from thought, language, and mathematics.

La Universidad de Estocolmo, recién inaugurada, accedió a ser la primera universidad europea en contratar a una profesora de matemáticas.

Some Arab invented the idea of the number zero," I said. "Isn't that weird? Someone had to think zero up."   Because it isn't obvious—that nothing can be something. That something which can't be measured or seen could still exist and have meaning. Same with the soul, when you think about it.  

Let me explain, let me go into what we in the mathematics business like to call one big ole fucking goddamn shit-eating hypothesis