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    Stephenie Meyer
    “My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun [2008 Draft]
    tags: despair, mathematics, sadness, writing
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    Michael Grant
    “I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.”
    ― Michael Grant, Gone
    tags: gone-series, humor, mathematics
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    Fran Lebowitz
    “In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ”
    ― Fran Lebowitz
    tags: algebra, education, humor, mathematics
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    Lord Byron
    “I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.”
    ― Lord George Gordon Byron
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: mathematics, poetry
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    Roman Payne
    “The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.”
    ― Roman Payne
    tags: art, artistic, creativity, equations, gifts, ideas, inspiration, literature, math, mathematical, mathematics, muse, muses, mysteries, mystery, payne, sleep, sleeping, waking
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    Deepak Chopra
    “Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.”
    ― Deepak Chopra
    tags: abstract, balance, beauty, cosmos, deepak-chopra, energy, harmony, life, logic, math, mathematics, mind, mirrror, order, orderliness, peace, quote, quotes, reflaction, reflect, universal, universe, value, values, wisdom
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    Ki Longfellow
    “What comes, is called.”
    ― Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver
    tags: christian-history, hypatia-of-alexandria, mathematics, philosophy, spirituality
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    Malcolm X
    “I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: argument, mathematics, schooling
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    Albert Einstein
    “Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: mathematics
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    Paul Lockhart
    “It is the story that matters not just the ending.”
    ― Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
    tags: journey, math, mathematics, story
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
    tags: education, humor, intelligence, mathematics, statistics
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    Jarod Kintz
    “The only reason I don’t know more about love is because there just isn’t more to know. In fact, I’ve reduced love to a mathematical formula: Hdgk(X)=H2k(X,Q)∩Hk,k(X). Actually, that’s not right. That’s the statement piece of the Hodge conjecture, but I’m sure you already knew that.
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    ― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus:

    Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.
    Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore-
    Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second.

    This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: humor, logic, mathematics
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    Louis Zukofsky
    “Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.”
    ― Louis Zukofsky
    tags: addition, infinity, intelligence, math, mathematics, mind, thought
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  • #16
    “Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.”
    ― Marcel Achard
    tags: humor, mathematics, women
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    Yōko Ogawa
    “Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.”
    ― Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor
    tags: housekeeper, mathematics, ogawa, problem-solving, professor
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    R.M. ArceJaeger
    “Some people believe in imaginary friends. I believe in imaginary numbers.”
    ― R.M. ArceJaeger
    tags: humor, math, mathematics
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    Yōko Ogawa
    “Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or do. Numbers were also his way of reaching out to the world. They were safe, a source of comfort.”
    ― Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor
    tags: mathematics, numbers, society
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    Thomas Mann
    “I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.”
    ― Thomas Mann
    tags: mathematics
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    René Descartes
    “But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.”
    ― Rene Decartes
    tags: math, mathematics, nature, opinion, science
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    Pierre-Simon Laplace
    “Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.”
    ― Pierre Laplace
    tags: astronomy, atheist, god, humor, mathematics, napoleon, science
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    René Descartes
    “With me, everything turns into mathematics.”
    ― Rene Descartes
    tags: math, mathematics
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  • #24
    “This is the team. We're trying to go to the moon. If you can't put someone up, please don't put them down.”
    ― NASA
    tags: mathematics, rocket-science, science
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    Erwin Schrödinger
    “I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon [Ausweg]. And actually not a year passed before it became an official credo, and it still is.”
    ― Erwin Schrödinger
    tags: born, hate, math, mathematics, max-born, probability-theory, science
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    Leonhard Euler
    “Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.”
    ― Leonhard Euler
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    Werner Heisenberg
    “I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.”
    ― Werner Heisenberg
    tags: language, math, mathematics, physics, plato, science
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    Brian Greene
    “Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.”
    ― Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
    tags: mathematics, physics, truth
    39 likes



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