Quotes about Math

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Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are — Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beaut — Deepak Chopra
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. — John von Neumann
A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your realit — Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
90% of the game is half mental. — Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. — Fran Lebowitz
Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—about ANYTHING?"Harry — J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure — A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited — Augusten Burroughs, Possible Side Effects
I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it. — Michael Grant, Gone
I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to th — Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly! — Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
What comes, is called. — Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetor — Francis Bacon, The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, consider — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages an — George Pólya
When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages — they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
What if one were to want to hunt for these hidden presences? You can’t just rummage around like you’re at a yard sale. Y — Hari Kunzru, Gods Without Men
If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it thi — Neal Stephenson, Anathem