Quotes by Math The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get. Gary Player practiceeducationmath I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too. Gary Lineker gamesmathfootball But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you. Fyodor Dostoevsky humblemathtwo At one point I wanted to work for NASA and be an astrophysicist, so I did physics, math, and chemistry before realizing I probably wasn't quite smart enough to do that. But I am still hugely interested in cosmology and astrophysics. That is my geeky subject area. Gemma Chan chemistrysmartmath Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude. Friedrich Nietzsche naturemathscience If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment. Geoffrey S. Fletcher investmentfilmmath To ask the right question is harder than to answer it. Georg Cantor harderanswersmath In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. Georg Cantor highermathart In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. Georg Cantor educationmathart Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated with concepts introduced previously by means of precise definitions. Georg Cantor developmentmathmean So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians. Georg C. Lichtenberg sanctityreputationmath Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see. George Berkeley mathphilosophythinking But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding. George Berkeley understandingmistakemath And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities...? George Berkeley departedmathmay The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. To be sure, his art originated in the necessity for clothing such creatures, but this was long ago; to this day a shape will occasionally appear which will fit into the garment as if the garment had been made for it. Then there is no end of surprise and delight. George Dantzig mathscienceart All models are wrong, but some are useful. George E. P. Box mathscienceknowledge There was a young fellow from Trinity, George Gamow squaresmathscience People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver. George Carlin sarcasmmathfunny What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises. Georg C. Lichtenberg mindmathneeds All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true. Georg C. Lichtenberg naturemathbeauty«2324252627282930313233»
