Math Love Quotes

Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.

I just love math and most people don't.

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.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity.

My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. I think figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject, but I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.

To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Many young women are less whole and androgynous than they were at age ten. They are more appearance-conscious and sex-conscious. They are quieter, more fearful of holding strong opinions, more careful what they say and less honest. They are more likely to second-guess themselves and to be self-critical. They are bigger worriers and more effective people pleasers. They are less likely to play sports, love math and science and plan on being president. They hide their intelligence. Many must fight for years to regain all the territory they lost.

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.

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?

The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings, and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to senses tried by the present day kaleidoscope of events.