Famous Math Saying

Famous Math Saying

Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics.
Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)

It is as if mathematics were the vegetables of the academic dinner: Everyone knows that they are good for you, but no one forces you to eat them.
Timothy S. Norfolk, ”A Mathematician’s Apology? It’s Time to Stop”, FOCUS, Feb. 1997, pp. 14–15. (reprinted in Virginia Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 24, No. 1, Fall 1997, pp. 8–9.)

Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality
Albert Einstein

I don't believe in mathematics.
Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.
Albert Einstein

If it's green, it's biology, If it stinks, it's chemistry, If it has numbers it's math, If it doesn't work, it's technology
Unknown

I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.
Roger Jones

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
David Hilbert

May Your Life Be Like Arithmetic:

Joys Added - Sorrows Subtracted - Friends Multiplied - Love Un-Divided
Unknown

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.
Margot Asquith

"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
Bell, Eric Temple

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Nicholaus Copernicus

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there
Charles R. Darwin

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house.
Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", (Robert A. Heinlein)

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
Jules Henri Poincare

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.
Cokie Roberts

Mathematicians don't crack jokes, they crack codes.
Tony Follari Comedian

Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
M. C. Reed

Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach



Friends are the sunshine of life.
John Hay