Maths Quotes

“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”
― John von Neumann

“If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable”
― Ilyas Kassam

“Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.”
― Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation

“The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average.”
― P.J. O'Rourke

“If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2.”
― Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

“If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither ‘number’ nor ‘size,’ but always form.”
― Alexander Grothendieck

“Revenge may be exacted a hundred times over in one sleepless night. The impulse, the dreaming intention, is human, normal, and we should forgive ourselves. But the raised hand, the actual violent enactment, is cursed. The maths says so. There’ll be no reversion to the status quo ante, no balm, no sweet relief, or none that lasts. Only a second crime. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches a civilisation. It’s a reversion to constant, visceral fear.”
― Ian McEwan, Nutshell

“On a plaque attached to the NASA deep space probe we [human beings] are described in symbols for the benefit of any aliens who might meet the spacecraft as “bilaterly symmetrical, sexually differentiated bipeds, located on one of the outer spiral arms of the Milky Way, capable of recognising the prime numbers and moved by one extraordinary quality that lasts longer than all our other urges—curiosity.”
― david wells

“Seni sama pentingnya dengan matematika. Seni memanusiakan manusia. Seni menciptakan rasa empati”
― Wahyu Aditya, Sila ke-6: Kreatif Sampai Mati

“They say that maths is a language. So how do I order a pizza with extra cheese in maths?”
― Greg Curtis

“Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics it was either that or back to the dole queue on Monday. Sorry I missed the Wednesday lunch date, but I was in a black hole all morning.”
― Douglas Adams, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts

“Life is a linear equation in which you can't cross multiply! If you think you can do it, you can do it. If you think you can't do it, you can't do it. It's a simple formula!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“I can't multiply myself out of a paper bag. But when it comes to roots, I'm your man.”
― Jerry Newport

“Grown-ups like numbers.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

“Be on the right side of the equation”
― Dr Darius Singh

“It's when you cross your tees that you add something else to the equation.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“You've got to struggle with it.”
― Ian Tonkin

“I learnt that in teaching young children the concept of number, you should start with the concrete, then move to the pictorial, before finally representing numbers in the abstract. I learnt that children should be encouraged to articulate their processes, and feed back to each other on whether they are right or wrong, and why. And I learnt that this is so children understand number concepts, not just procedures, because (though not only because) the PSLE tests understanding, not just memorisation. As I was chatting to the professor in the car as she gave me a lift to the station, she also expounded on the importance of teacher-student relationships – 'you can't touch their brain until you have touched their heart'.”
― Lucy Crehan, Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world's education superpowers

“A good notation should be unambiguous, pregnant, easy to remember.”
― George Pólya, How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

“And he said...

...numbers are just a way to sum things up.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I never realised power of x for a function f(x) when I was in school.”
― Bhupesh B. Patil

“I never realised power of x of function f(x) when I was in school.”
― Bhupesh B. Patil

“B: True. I've got this made urge to get up before a class and present our results: Theorem, proof, lemma, remark. I'd make it so slick nobody would be able to guess how we did it, and everyone would be ”
― Donald Ervin Knuth, Surreal Numbers

“Sampath remembered how he had not at any time ever managed to solve a problem put to him by Father Matthew Mathematics, never managed to rake and weed those forests of numbers and letters upon the board into tidy rows following an orderly progression of arrows to a solution that matched the one in the list of answers at the back of the textbook.”
― Kiran Desai, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

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― Tutor Publications

“We are now in a position to turn to problems of the definition of mathematics. The definition I advocate is briefly this: Mathematics is the science of formal systems.”
― Haskell B. Curry, Outlines of a formalist philosophy of mathematics

“Not everything needs to multiply. Look at Zero. And its impact!”
― Shalaka Kulkarni, Tadow - Vivid Echoes of Modern India

“CNN discovered math, and within minutes all the stations except for Fox News were flashing "15x37=555" on background screens while overpaid anchors carried the three as they explained for those who couldn't read, multiply or follow the numbers.”
― Alexander Boldizar, The Man Who Saw Seconds

“Discover patterns. Master the board.”
― Hameed Fathah, Chess Grid Mathematics: Power Zones & Piece Mastery Workbook