Quotes of: Mathematics Keyword

I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

Stephen Hawking

I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?

The Shape

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

Nathan Myhrvold

Rejecting God's truth b/c of mankind's hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind's incompetence.

Orrin Woodward

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

Pam Brown

I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on problems, that I would be wrong.

Simon McBurney

All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand, and the times it is not.

Tyler Knott Gregson

You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

Marcus du Sautoy

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

Núria Añó

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

Diane Cilento

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

Nick Lampson

As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.

Steven Pinker

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

Felix Klein

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

Henri Poincare

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Izaak Walton

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

Johnny Ball

The more I read, to me the more incredible everything is. Based on what I've read, there are all these other dimensional planes and spaces, mathematically proven.

Dwight Schultz

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

E. T. Bell

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

Edsger Dijkstra

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

Edmund Husserl