Math Humor Quotes

“I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding.
"Isosceles," Jack quipped.”
― Amanda Hocking, My Blood Approves

“90% of the game is half mental.”
― Yogi Berra , The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said

“My father would argue two side of a möbius strip.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“For large values of 1, 1 approaches 2, for small values of 2.”
― Keith Caserta

“Everyone hated Calculus. Quadratic equations, parabolas, logarithms, trigonometry - you name it. It was like floating in an endless, frictionless void traveling at x miles per hour at a descension rate of one half the speed of gravity. Solve for x.”
― Andrew Sturm, The Kirkwood Project

“This is all so silly,' said Diko. 'Who cares about what's real and what isn't real? [...] And as for our own history, the parts that will be lost, who cares if a mathematician calls us dirty names like "unreal"? They say such slanders about the square root of minus two as well.”
― Orson Scott Card, Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

“What did we know? This was early days. We had no idea what was out there. How dangerous it might be. It was just a school maths problem. They never asked that in the exams, did they? Like, “If John walks at three miles an hour from London to Brighton, and he's attacked by rabid grown-ups four times, and they bite his right leg off, how long will it take him to bleed to death?”
― Charlie Higson, The Hunted

“For instance, in a book entitled Mathematics and the Imagination (published in 1940) the authors, Edward Kasner and James Newman, introduced a number called the "googol," which is good and large and which was promptly taken up by writers of books and articles on popular mathematics.
Personally, I think it is an awful name, but the young child of one of the authors invented it, and what could a proud father do? Thus, we are afflicted forever with that baby-talk number.”
― Isaac Asimov, Adding a Dimension: Seventeen Essays on the History of Science