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Mathematics Quotes

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

– Gabriel Marcel

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.

– Henry Petroski

Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why.

– Heather Wilson

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

– George Smoot

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

– G. H. Hardy

I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a little bit in economics because they talk about costs, prices and quantities of goods.

– Herbert A. Simon

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

– George Boole

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

– Henri Poincare

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it’s supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

– Howard Nemerov

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

– H. L. Mencken

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

– G. H. Hardy

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

– G. H. Hardy

How is an error possible in mathematics?

– Henri Poincare

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

– James Gleick

I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.

– James Heckman

I can observe the game theory is applied very much in economics. Generally, it would be wise to get into the mathematics as much as seems reasonable because the economists who use more mathematics are somehow more respected than those who use less. That’s the trend.

– John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

– John Adams

I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.

– Jacob Epstein

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

– John James Audubon

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

– Izaak Walton

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you’re talking about being a mathematician, I think that’s definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.

– John Hurt

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

– Gabriel Marcel

As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to ‘Non-Cooperative Games,’ also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties.

– John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

– Jean Piaget

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

– Arthur Eddington

Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It’s extraordinary. There’s a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that’s wonderful.

– Bob Hoskins

Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it’s actually the mathematics that led me to it.

– Alvin E. Roth

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.

– John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

– Bertrand Russell

As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction.

– Ahmed Zewail

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