Top 62 Quotes About Numbers And Math
#1. The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.
Joseph De Maistre
#2. Gematria is simply a man-made game that uses numbers; and NO, this is NOT Math! Projecting a game unto nature does not deem it to be part of, Science!
Ibrahim Ibrahim
#3. A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives.
Douglas R. Hofstadter
#4. Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
Pliny The Elder
#5. Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.
Audrey MacLean
#6. Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.
Keith Devlin
#7. Infinity exist unfortnately what will happen if we accept it??
After all numbers are taken what happens??
We will start with Omega+1 Then Omega+Omega+1... Think on this, this is the infinitive road, I gave it to you but what you will do?
Deyth Banger
#8. Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.
Peter Cameron
#9. Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
Carl Sandburg
#10. Number was the substance of all things.
Pythagoras
#11. Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.
Jules Verne
#12. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.
Lord Kelvin
#14. It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there.
Kato
#15. Some people believe in imaginary friends. I believe in imaginary numbers.
R.M. ArceJaeger
#18. Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.
Ben Quayle
#19. Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.
Isaac Asimov
#20. Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.
Virgil
#21. There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.
George Gamow
#22. God created everything by number, weight and measure.
Isaac Newton
#23. ...but numbers didn't lie. That was the reason I loved math. It was the only pure form of honesty left in this world.
Teresa Mummert
#24. In Korea, math moved fluidly. When the teacher asked questions, the kids answered as if math were a language that they knew by heart. As in Tom's class in Poland, calculators weren't allowed, so kids had learned mental tricks to manipulate numbers quickly.
Amanda Ripley
#25. I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in.
Hulk Hogan
#26. My life depended on some math I'd done earlier. If I dropped a sign or added two numbers wrong, I might never wake up.
Andy Weir
#27. Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
Honore De Balzac
#28. Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
Plato
#29. Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
Carl Sandburg
#31. But you know the minute I graduated high school I never looked at a single math problem again, right? I send everything with numbers on it to my accountant, or I make Michael deal with it." "Great. Spoken like a true feminist,
Meg Cabot
#32. Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never, ever condemned you for your thoughts and desires.
Michael Grant
#33. Wherever there is a number, there is beauty.
Proclus
#34. If you plug in a number and the math starts getting creepy (anything involving fractions or negative numbers is creepy) ...
Doug Pierce
#35. Or an amicable pair," said Sam. "Sorry?" "In math, that's what we call two numbers each of which is equal to the sum of the divisors of the other. The smallest ones, 220 and 284, were regarded by the Pythagoreans as symbols of true friendship.
Reginald Hill
#36. I'm not good at math. Numbers are a terrifying thing to me. My father is a whiz with money and the stock market, and he tries to explain it to me, and I find it terrifying.
Chris Gethard
#38. If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.
Richard Preston
#39. I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I know a lot of people don't like geometry, but for me it's fun.
Khleo
#40. You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games, while I was supposed to be doing mathematics. Then, when I discovered surreal numbers, I realized that playing games IS math.
John Horton Conway
#41. If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?
Nick Carter
#42. The feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know
Henri Poincare
#43. Playing with numbers was still considered taboo, a subject best left to the later years, despite America's obvious and enduring math handicap. For too long, what American
Amanda Ripley
#44. Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.
Lord Kelvin
#45. Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.
Nicholas Eberstadt
#46. God is real unless declared integer
David
#47. No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?
Paul Lockhart
#48. Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers.
Kato
#49. The introduction of numbers as coordinates is an act of violence.
Hermann Weyl
#50. I would hope that maybe math teachers could use 'Prime Baby' as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers.
Gene Luen Yang
#51. Wherever there is number, there is beauty.
Proclus
#52. Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and other curious nooks and crannies of ancient worlds and modern times.
Ivars Peterson
#53. C.S. Lewis says that fiction is able to sneak past the watchful dragons of religion. It becomes more powerful to speak in poetry.
The song goes straight to the heart while the numbers
and the math of it will never be able to reach that.
Jon Foreman
#54. ... I just figured it would be easier to do the math problem with the numbers in the correct colors.
Wendy Mass
#55. It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness
cry and then walk
but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
Aimee Bender
#56. Let's take some extra time to talk about one: Only the number one can create all numbers with this simple equation, 111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321. One, expressed nine times, multiplied by itself, produces all subsequent numbers progressively and then inversely. Zero is not a number.
Michael Ben Zehabe
#57. Infinity ... is used in physics simply as a shorthand for a very big number.
Victor J. Stenger
#58. It'll turn out you mean love,' Sholto said. 'At the moment math is the only thing that excites you so you're nosing around numbers as if numbers are life. But in two years you'll be telling me about some boy.
Elizabeth Knox
#59. Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony beautiful.
If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful.
If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.
Paul Erdos
#60. My father says that if I hit 2,500 balls each day, I'll hit 17,500 balls each week, and at the end of one year I'll have hit nearly one million balls. He believes in math. Numbers, he says, don't lie. A child who hits one million balls each year will be unbeatable.
Andre Agassi
#61. The root of the word "integrity" is "integer." It's a math term - and it refers to whole numbers. The word itself implies "wholeness." These are the questions we must ask ourselves frequently. "Am I whole?" "Are there parts of my character that are lacking?
Josh Hatcher
#62. I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.
David Plouffe
