170 Math Love Quotes

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Famous Math Love Quotes

Mathematics is the language of nature. — Naval Ravikant

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher. - Joan Cusack

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher. — Joan Cusack

Mathematics is written for mathematicians. - Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathematics is written for mathematicians. — Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. — Galileo Galilei

Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal. — Tobias Dantzig

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. — Albert Einstein

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

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. — Bertrand Russell

Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics. — Plato

Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful. — Doron Zeilberger

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty. — Bertrand Russell

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms. — Carl Benjamin Boyer

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty. — Deepak Chopra

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field. — Paul Dirac

Short Math Love Quotes

  • For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
  • At some deep level, mathematics is still an art. — Naval Ravikant
  • Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. — Stendhal
  • Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort. — George Polya
  • Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra. — Sophie Germain
  • Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them. — Joseph Fourier
  • Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind. — Danica McKellar
  • Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding. — William Thurston
  • Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages. — Danica McKellar
  • Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. — Godfrey Harold Hardy

Math Love Image Quotes

Math love quote Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.

Mathematics Math Love Quotes

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. — Paul Halmos

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

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

Math love quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

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

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead

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. — Eric Bell

Math love quote Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.

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

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

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. — Francis Bacon

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

Mathematical Love Quotes

Politics is not an exact science. That's why in school I loved mathematics. Everything in mathematics was clear to me. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy

It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover. — Edward Frenkel

My undergraduate, I double-majored in biology and chemistry. Biology was kind of my love. — Peggy Whitson

Math love quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

I have two interests in life – markets and women. Both are concerned with four letter words – markets with the risk and woman with love. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. — Andrew Wiles

Math love quote If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.

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

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience. — Pam Brown

Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence. — Maria Montessori

There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves. — Blaise Pascal

Great Math Quotes

The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics. — Johannes Kepler

Read the greats in math, science, and philosophy. Ignore your contemporaries and news. Avoid tribal identification. Put truth above social approval. — Naval Ravikant

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

Math love quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy. — G. H. Hardy

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician. — Paul Dirac

If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy. — Alfred Renyi

Math love quote Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line. — David Blaine

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them. — Abraham Flexner

The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it. — Robert L. Park

I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is. — Paul Erdos

Good Math Quotes

You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either. — Galen Rowell

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. — W. S. Gilbert

The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain. — Jacques Hadamard

Math love quote I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.

Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved? — Oliver Heaviside

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future. — Thad Cochran

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. — G. H. Hardy

Math love quote The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one. — Paul Halmos

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

Mathematics is the gate and key to science. — Roger Bacon

The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing. — Leopold Kronecker

Math Teacher Quotes

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

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. — Albert Einstein

I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math. — Andrew Shue

Math love quote Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician. — Karl Weierstrass

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. — John G. Kemeny

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

Math love quote A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. — Philip J. Davis

Science is simply common sense at its best. — Thomas Huxley

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful. — H. L. Mencken

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer. — Isaac Asimov

Math Education Quotes

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel. — John Glenn

We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work. — Jaime Escalante

Where there is matter, there is geometry. — Johannes Kepler

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. — Rene Descartes

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. — Arthur Conan Doyle

It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way. — George Polya

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. — Lord Kelvin

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never. — Alexandre Dumas

But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the integral of a given quantity can be found or not. — Johann Bernoulli

Math Class Quotes

Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment thats 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math. — Denise Juneau

In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown. — Cam Newton

Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony? — Sophie Kinsella

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. — Bill Gates

When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school! — Danica McKellar

Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well! — Simone Elkeles

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years. — Bill Gates

It's kind of hard to rally around a math class. — Bear Bryant

I was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken when my math teacher said, "You're failing in school, you're messing up, why don't you just try this?" I said, "Alright, let me try it," and I started going to acting classes and I loved it. I thought, "I may not make it but I love doing it." — John Leguizamo

We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all the innovation, and we have a tradition of great arts, great music. — Wynton Marsalis

Maths Funny Quotes

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. — Ambrose Bierce

Know what you're talking about. — George H. W. Bush

Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero. — Steven Wright

What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math. — Mike Birbiglia

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more. — Albert Einstein

Two wrongs don't make a right. — Roald Dahl

I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing. — M. C. Escher

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. — George Polya

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically. — Leonardo da Vinci

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos

Learning Math Quotes

In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money. - French Montana

In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money. — French Montana

I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company. — Balaji Srinivasan

Geometry is the foundation of all painting. — Albrecht Durer

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method. — Paul Halmos

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. — Richard Hamming

A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle. — Mark Twain

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless. — Euripides

The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others. — William Thurston

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures. — George Polya

So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, “Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let’s do something you can really learn from! — Carol S. Dweck

Math And Science Quotes

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. — Pythagoras

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. — John Von Neumann

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

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. — John Von Neumann

I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations. — G. H. Hardy

To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it. — Pierre de Fermat

In order to solve this differential equation you look at it until a solution occurs to you. — George Polya

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection. — Hermann Weyl

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. — Ernest Rutherford

The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up. — Jim Clyburn

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More Math Love Quotes

I was kind of a nerdy, geeky type. And I loved math. People teased me about it. I felt pretty much like an outcast. — Jennifer Doudna

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

I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it gives you a love of certain things. You don't have to become the next great composer. It's just nice to have heard certain things or to have seen certain things. It's part of being a human being. — Marvin Hamlisch

What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible. — Rainbow Rowell

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college. — Danica McKellar

Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. — R. Drabek

By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you? — Danica McKellar

Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers. — Kato

People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver. — George Carlin

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

I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at it I imagine that I'd be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don't think I'd have made it. — Matteo Manassero

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics. — Lord Kelvin

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers. — Jayma Mays

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

If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with? — Danica McKellar

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

You can't plan the kind of deep love that results in children. Fatherhood was not a conscious decision. It was part of the wonderful ride I was on. All the math finally worked. — Johnny Depp

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on. — Danica McKellar

I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is. — Danica McKellar

I was excellent at English and Drama. Maths and Science I was terrible at. I didn't have any interest in them. I was happiest at lunchtime, playing with my friends. But I love science now, that's the funny thing. And I'd be so good at geography, as I've been fortunate enough to travel the world. — Peter Andre

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

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. — Eric Temple Bell

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

I just love math and most people don't. — Danica McKellar

I always loved science and math growing up. I was born in Iran; I grew up there and then came to the United States when I was about 16 years old. And I thought that this was my opportunity to get involved with something really cool and great. — Anousheh Ansari

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. — Jennifer Garner

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

Questions are creative acts of intelligence. — Francis Kingdon Ward

Katherine Johnson passion for math, the way I light up when I get asked questions about acting is the way her eyes danced when she talked about math and how she wanted people to fall in love with numbers the way that she did. If I had a teacher like that, I could have been a rocket scientist. — Taraji P. Henson

That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world. — Ben Sherwood

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