Quotes about Mathematics
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- Madeleine L'Engle
When a king asked Euclid, the mathematician, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner? he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry.
- Samuel Johnson
ALIQUANT (A'LIQUANT) adj.[aliquantus, Lat.]Parts of a number, which, however repeated, will never make up the number exactly; as, 3 is an aliquant of 10, thrice 3 being 9, four times 3 making 12.
- Samuel Johnson
Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?
- Helen Keller
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
- Albert Einstein
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.
- Deepak Chopra
I was very lucky to be born into a very academic family. I was well-read, well-trained in mathematics. I had lots of advantages to start with.
- Abhijit Banerjee
I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.
- Butch Trucks
If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God, and which he revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
- Josh McDowell
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.
- Stephen Hawking