Quotes About Mathematics And Love

#1. Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos) based on this idea. But my personal opinion is that mathematics may be a hard way to describe ideas like love or democracy.

Seth Shostak

#2. 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

#3. School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek." They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.

Simone Weil

#4. Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is
par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

Maria Montessori

#5. Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

Archimedes

#6. I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess and bridge problems in newspapers. I find that relaxing.

Vikram Seth

#7. Gentlemen, my father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. I understand only love and liberty.

Victor Hugo

#8. I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher!

Shakuntala Devi

#9. An arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war.

Hannah Fry

#10. I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

Andrew Wiles

#11. Do you know why I love mathematics?"
"Because it blew your mind for free when you couldn't get drugs?"
Eccles snorted in surprise. "Well, yes, but there's another reason.

Brendan Halpin

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

Edward Frenkel

#13. I love to look at you. I always think of what Gordon Prescott said. He said that you are God's perfect exercise in structural mathematics.

Ayn Rand

#14. I love mathematics ... principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given him his greatest game the encompassing of the infinite.

Rozsa Peter

#15. Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

Blaise Pascal

#16. And of course in the long run, if there is a constant fight, the graceful is bound to be defeated and the efficient mind will win, because the world understands the language of mathematics, not of love.

Osho

#17. A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.'

David Mumford

#18. Fate and mathematics don't only bring you back to the people you love. They can also bring you to the people you hate.

Claudia Gray

#19. Music is the language of God. God's language, music, is not like mathematics or geometry. It is a language of love. If we love music, that is enough.

Sri Chinmoy

#20. Best thing about mathematics is that it teach us to love the problem.

Vitthal Jadhav

#21. He wished that the mathematics of the world were like the mathematics of the heart - then his equal love and hate would mean he felt nothing instead of double.

Tiffany Reisz

#22. Mathematics is natural. Love is natural. It only makes sense that it's mathematically quantifiable.

Ally Blake

#23. Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

Rudolph A. Marcus

#24. According to the strange mathematics of the god of mutual affinity, the shadows that clouded their pasts when united became only half as dense instead of darker.

- The World And The Door

O. Henry

#25. It's not only the myths surrounding chess. Chess itself is a myth, you know? A game of hierarchy, of war. It's a story that people have been using to explain complex concepts for eons. Mathematics, yes. Geometry. Business. Philosophy. Even love.

Skye Warren

#26. I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

Bertrand Russell

#27. I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful.

Rozsa Peter

#28. No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

Isaac Newton

#29. Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

Charles Williams

#30. The idea here, of course, is, you know, mathematics is the language of science, it's the way that we understand the natural world. And there's definitely been a push to sort of study advanced math and kind of reawaken the love of advanced math.

Anya Kamenetz

#31. Physics, mathematics, music, painting, my politics, my love for you, my work, the star-dust of my body, the spirit that impels it, clocks diurnal, time perpetual, the roll, rough, tender, swamping, liberating, breathing, moving, thinking nature, human nature and the cosmos are patterned together.

Jeanette Winterson

#32. I love music. I do play. It's like mathematics, and it's also emotional. It's nice to play, for no other reason than just to play.

Jeremy Renner

#33. Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead of singing, blow your guitar and ring the horn. Hate mathematics, and love eddies. Creation is a bird without a flight plan, that will never fly in a straight line.

Violeta Parra

#34. Ah, wine. Wine was my friend. Wine understood me. Wine knew that it was entirely possible to be one hundred percent happy for your sisters and also ten percent jealous, because Wine does not care about mathematics.

Melanie Harlow

#35. Maybe I'm wrong; I might not believe in fate but I do believe in causality and who's to say fate isn't just a sort of social mathematics that brings like-minded people together.

Simon Pegg