Math Quotes and Sayings

Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.

The essence of math is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.

Math is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

Round numbers are always false.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of math.

In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except that it be that men do not sufficently understand the use of the Pure Mathematics.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

2 is not equal to 3 – not even for very large values of 2.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Twelve for 23… It doesn’t take a genius to see that’s under 50 percent.

“Obvious” is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things ?

One can always reason with reason.

The longer math lives the more abstract — and therefore, possibly also the more practical — it becomes.

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be occupied with the ideas of number and quantity.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Math is the queen of the sciences.

To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain; to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.

A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.

Math may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

I don’t believe in mathematics.

Math is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

The essence of mathematics is its freedom.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

It is as if mathematics were the vegetables of the academic dinner: Everyone knows that they are good for you, but no one forces you to eat them.

Math seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

Pure Mathematics is the science of the individual object in as much as it is born in thought.

Everything existing in the Universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

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  • 1. Avril Styrman wrote on 14 February, 2008, 13:57
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    Mathematical and religious dogmas are exactly as convincing and objective, when it comes to the things that are over and above common sense. People want to believe in something, and tend to hold on to the beliefs that were taught to them when they were young and open to influence.

  • 2. Avril Styrman wrote on 14 February, 2008, 14:00
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    A mathematician buries evident paradoxes into naming conventions such as ‘arbitrary’.

  • 3. Avril Styrman wrote on 14 February, 2008, 14:05
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    A platonist/classical mathematician wants to quantify his variables over numbers that cannot be applied in practice with the probability 1, just because he wants to say ‘for all numbers’. Why not quantify only for all those numbers that can be applied in theory? This way, the mathematician would no loose anything, but he would get rid of paradoxes.

  • 4. jaycent javin wrote on 2 March, 2008, 6:37
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    The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.

  • 5. jaycent javin wrote on 2 March, 2008, 6:39
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    it’s complicated

  • 6. Always2ndPlace wrote on 9 March, 2008, 0:25
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    I’ll love him till the last digit of pi.

  • 7. lol wrote on 18 April, 2008, 17:50
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    “its hard but not impossible!”

  • 8. ^^mada mada dane^^ wrote on 17 June, 2008, 11:59
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    the things around us is math..
    we are using numbers.
    luv it!!!!

  • 9. Rolly Tandaguen wrote on 28 July, 2008, 11:50
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    math is like a problem in our life
    think it!before you solve it!

  • 10. DL wrote on 19 September, 2008, 5:24
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    mAth Is Like A lOve THat So COMpLICAted.

    MAth iS lIKE A REalITY tHAT sO MANy PrOBlEmS tO sOLve.

  • 11. dArbY wrote on 19 September, 2008, 5:26
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    MaTh:
    WE CAN’t SolVe IT WiYHouT FoRmUkas To Be usE.

  • 12. Asiimwe Benon Tibbs wrote on 21 November, 2008, 8:23
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    Marriage is the only thing that does not respect the mathematical principle of 1+1=2, in marriage, 1+1=1.

  • 13. jessica wrote on 27 January, 2009, 20:59
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    Math keeps us learning the lesson of life

  • 14. ~*Mayvic*~ wrote on 2 February, 2009, 5:45
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    Math is not a problem to be solved but a number to be enjoyed!

  • 15. Saysh wrote on 24 May, 2009, 4:31
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    Mathematics is a subject one either loves or hates.

    The ones that love maths were dropped on their heads repeatedly as children.

  • 16. aiko wrote on 10 September, 2009, 14:12
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    Learn to love math and you will enjoy it.

  • 17. Kenny wrote on 21 September, 2009, 22:58
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    Without geometry life is pointless.

  • 18. SHANA wrote on 2 December, 2009, 10:40
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    Solutions over there; Equations over here: Mathematics Everywhere!!!

  • 19. dalmain wrote on 12 May, 2010, 8:27
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    I think MATH should get a life… and solve it’s own problems!!

  • 20. sameer wrote on 16 July, 2010, 12:47
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    Maths rule …thou shall not divide a number by zero.

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