Quotes About Applied Mathematics

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

Edsger Dijkstra

#2. Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.

Isabel Paterson

#3. I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics, and these subjects are at present at any rate, almost as "useless" as the theory of numbers.

G.H. Hardy

#4. It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.

Edward Frenkel

#5. Although in principle we know the equations that govern the whole of biology, we have not been able to reduce the study of human behavior to a branch of applied mathematics.

Stephen Hawking

#6. The geometer offers to the physicist a whole set of maps from which to choose. One map, perhaps, will fit the facts better than others, and then the geometry which provides that particular map will be the geometry most important for applied mathematics.

G.H. Hardy

#7. I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

Walter Kohn

#8. Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants.

Paul Halmos

#9. My decision to leave applied mathematics for economics was in part tied to the widely-held popular belief in the 1960s that macroeconomics had made fundamental inroads into controlling business cycles and stopping dysfunctional unemployment and inflation.

Robert C. Merton

#10. Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.

John Edensor Littlewood

#11. A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.

Anna Godbersen

#12. Or was he saying, "Hi! Wanna play?" And I did. Of course I did.

Jeff Lindsay

#13. The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. She was no pushover. That was for sure. She was strong, opinionated, easy to underestimate and misunderstand. She had her own ideas about duty and honor and she kept to her principles even with a gun at her back.

Robert Edsel

#15. As an undergraduate at Columbia, I went to the engineering school. I had a great deal of training in engineering and mathematics as well as subdiversified training. And then I went to the California Institute of Technology to do my Ph.D. in applied math.

Robert C. Merton

#16. Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.

Theodore Tilton

#17. Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

Adam Sandler

#18. There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

Nikolai Lobachevsky

#19. Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering principles, and applied agriculture. But other than that, many systems today are subject to interpretation.

Jacque Fresco

#20. It is in the world of things and places, times and troubles and turbid
processes, that mathematics is not so much applied as illustrated.

David Berlinski

#21. Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#22. I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

John Mayer

#23. The little flower lies in the dust. It sought the path of the butterfly.

Rabindranath Tagore

#24. She had a thing for cocky assholes. When they expressed interest in her it seemed meaningful. When nice guys hit on her, she had trouble caring.

Lucinda Rosenfeld

#25. Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

G.H. Hardy

#26. I have so many other interests: Writing, acting, directing, real life, I need little pieces of it all to satisfy me. The thirst is deep and I am complicated.

Traci Lords

#27. There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

Taryn Manning

#28. To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.

Lee Iacocca

#29. She wouldn't be afraid of vampires as such: being rash and curious, she'd be the first into the forbidden crypt. But she wouldn't like the thought of Tin turning into one, or turning into anyone other than her idea of him. Meanwhile,

Margaret Atwood

#30. You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which calculates the causes and effects of man's industry, and shows how it may be best applied.

William Stanley Jevons

#31. She rolls her eyes again, but laughs this time. "You probably have callouses from jerking off too much." I hold up my right hand. "But they're on both hands, not just my left." "Ambidextrous," she deadpans.

Colleen Hoover

#32. Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin
We could plan a murder
Or start a religion.

Jim Morrison