70 Pi Quotes to Help You Appreciate the Beauty of Mathematics

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Famous Pi Quotes

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

For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e. — Leonhard Euler

Pizza is a circle. Pizza is my life. Pizza is the circle of life. — Ed Sheeran

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

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

The world is made of Circles And we think in straight Lines — Peter Senge

Number rules the universe. — Pythagoras

Nature hates calculators. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry. — Sara Paretsky

The perfect woman has an IQ of 150, wants to make love until 4 in the morning, then turns into a pizza! — David Lee Roth

Mathematics is the language of nature. — Naval Ravikant

One must be able to say at all times--instead of points, straight lines, and planes--tables, chairs, and beer mugs — David Hilbert

The stars are the apexes of what triangles! — Henry David Thoreau

If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe. — Nikola Tesla

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral. — Maynard James Keenan

Short Pi Quotes

  • You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it. — Yann Martel
  • If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? — Yann Martel
  • Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. — Henry Spencer
  • Chuck Norris knows the last digit of PI. — Chuck Norris
  • Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. — Yann Martel
  • It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. — Yann Martel
  • The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy. — Yann Martel
  • Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity. — Yann Martel
  • It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. — Yann Martel
  • Religion is more than rite and ritual. — Yann Martel

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More Pi Quotes

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. — Yann Martel

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older. — Darren Aronofsky

Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems; it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not just geometry's little corner of it. Pi occupies a key place in trigonometry too. It is intimately related to e, and to imaginary numbers. Pi even shows up in the mathematics of probability — Robert Kanigel

Can't find a reason why God gave you to me. But that's not a question to be asked. May be question is how did God knew that I needed someone like you Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. — Lisa Hoffman

They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either. — Joe Pantoliano

It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names. — Yann Martel

What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist? — Leopold Kronecker

The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. — Joe Hill

Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you. — Yann Martel

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.] — Joseph Joubert

I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye. — Yann Martel

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited. — Yann Martel

Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher. — Yann Martel

I chose the name Pi because it's an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a "rational" understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, "irrational" yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe. — Yann Martel

I have a team, the same team of filmmakers I worked with on 'Pi' and 'Requiem'. Which is my cameraman, and my composer, and my producer. We've all worked together for a number of films. — Darren Aronofsky

I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting the designation of National Pi Day. — Eric Cantor

I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape. — Yann Martel

When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year. — Daniel Tammet

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh

I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality. — Yann Martel

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time. — Yann Martel

Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life. — Yann Martel

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. — Yann Martel

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important. — Lisa Hoffman

My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book. — Yann Martel

I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don't get me started!) without having to worry about God. Or if pi isn't enough, how about fractals? or quantum mechanics? — Tom Lehrer

What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. — Yann Martel

There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre: e^(i pi) + 1 = 0... It appeals equally to the mystic, the scientist, the philosopher, the mathematician. — Edward Kasner

Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker! — Yann Martel

Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch? — Yann Martel

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving. — Yann Martel

There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'. — Darren Aronofsky

So here we have pi squared, which an engineer would call 10. — Frank King

I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That's how you know someone is clever. They don't come out and tell you pi to 13 places - they tell you a joke. — Ricky Gervais

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