Quotes by Math I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. Lord Kelvin mathnumbersscience When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. Lord Kelvin mathnumbersscience Fourier is a mathematical poem. Lord Kelvin fourierpoetrymath Mathematics is the only good metaphysics. Lord Kelvin metaphysicsmathnumbers Yes, but you need to learn your maths." "I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything. Lisa Kleypas hundredmathneeds Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out. Louis C. K. educationmathmen My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core! Louis C. K. thanksmathkids 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 Byron mathgivingtwo Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know many mathematicians who are far abler than I am, but they have not been so lucky. An illustration may be given by considering two miners. One may be an expert geologist, but he does not find the golden nuggets that the ignorant miner does. Louis J. Mordell illustrationmathtwo Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition. Louis Zukofsky infinitemindmath [Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it. Louise Fitzhugh hatebodymath Math is the language of the universe. Lucas Grabeel universelanguagemath I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe. Lucas Grabeel appreciatemathfacts Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths. Louise Rennison things-in-lifedonemath Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics. Ludwig Wittgenstein mathlifeorder With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophicalmountainmath There can never be surprises in logic. Ludwig Wittgenstein logicsurprisemath Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophicalmathreality There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway. Lydia Davis abstractprinciplesmath What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of patterns appropriate to their own lives through which they can see variety, regularity, and interconnections. Lynn Steen teachingmathchildren«4445464748495051525354»
