Life Is Mathematics Quotes

#1. Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life.

Mary Hatwood Futrell

#2. The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.

Paul Erdos

#3. Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.

Samuel Butler

#4. The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that spreads understanding and breathes life into ideas both old and new.

William Thurston

#5. Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it.

Simeon Denis Poisson

#6. What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness,

Dion Fortune

#7. Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.

Cassius Jackson Keyser

#8. I abandoned the assigned problems in standard calculus textbooks and followed my curiosity. Wherever I happened to be
a Vegas casino, Disneyland, surfing in Hawaii, or sweating on the elliptical in Boesel's Green Microgym
I asked myself, Where is the calculus in this experience?

Jennifer Ouellette

#9. The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.

George Edward Woodberry

#10. But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

Gabriel Marcel

#11. Every action of giving creates an opposite action of receiving and what you receive is always equal to what you've given. Whatever you give out in life, must return to you. It is the physics and the mathematics of the universe.

Rhonda Byrne

#12. 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

#13. If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

John Von Neumann

#14. The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology
the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

Edward Abbey

#15. Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

Albert J. Nock

#16. 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

#17. Ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.

Martin Cohen

#18. Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

Novalis

#19. Life is not mathematics, and few things have only one correct answer

Allan Massie

#20. Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.

Yuri Manin

#21. Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

Simeon Denis Poisson

#22. There is no remainder in the mathematics of infinity. All life is one; therefore, there cannot be God and man, nor a universe and God. A god not in the world is a false god, and a world not in God is unreal. All things return to one, and one operates in all.

Nyogen Senzaki

#23. This therefore is Mathematics:
She reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul;
She gives life to her own discoveries;
She awakens the mind and purifies the intellect;
She brings light to our intrinsic ideas;
She abolishes oblivion and ignorance which are ours by birth ...

Proclus

#24. If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living, - then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.

Johannes Kepler

#25. Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts ... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.

Viswanathan Anand

#26. But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my delight in his fine and tender play. ( ... ) Proof surprises us with its aliveness and intelligent modesty, and we have not met these characters before.

John Heilpern

#27. The language of mathematics, scientific observations, and our perceptivity together knit the window to reality.

Neeti Sinha

#28. What good is being a math genius if your life doesn't add up?

Marty Rubin

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

Claude Fayette Bragdon