Math Quotes - Page 30

• The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.

  John Stuart Mill

  Feelings, Analysis, Habit

  Autobiography v (p. 116)

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• But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding.

  George Berkeley

  Mistake, Understanding, Etc

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• And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities...?

  George Berkeley

  Departed, May, Velocity

  George Berkeley (1871). “The Works of George Berkeley: Miscellaneous works. Index, v.1-3”, p.283

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• Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.

  Aldous Huxley

  Negative, Invention, Minus

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fiction, May, Firsts

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• In the one branch he most needed

  Henry Adams

  Branches, Needed

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1315, Open Road Media

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• The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Newton, Defying, Method

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1895). “What Knowledge is of Most Worth? ...”

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• I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.

  John Forbes Nash

  Suffering, Doubt, Madness

  Statement of 1996, as quoted in "Dr. Riemann's Zeros" by Karl Sabbagh, (p. 88), 2003.

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• When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.

  Danica McKellar

  College, Class, Drug

  "Danica McKellar Promotes New Math Book By Posing in Lingerie for 'Maxim'" by JJ Duncan, www.zimbio.com. May 12, 2010.

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• I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

  John Henry Carver

  Physics, Mathematics, University

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• As I said in my last book, birds are mean. They're the only pet that, when they escape, the owners are relieved. You can tell a species is evil by doing this simple math. If my blond lab Molly was the size of T-Rex, that would just mean more kibble, more work for the gardener in the backyard, and a harder time moving her to my wife's side of the bed at night. If birds were the size of a T-Rex, the streets would be littered with human remains.

  Adam Carolla

  Moving, Book, Mean

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• He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.

  Confucius

  Logic, Problem, Reasoning

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• I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

  Albert Einstein

  Logic, Theory, Reasoning

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• I think I think, therefore I think I am.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Thinking, Logic, Reasoning

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• In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

  Francis Crick

  Lazy, Logic, Reasoning

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• Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Logic, Reason

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• Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Needs, Ethics, Logic

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1933). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Exact logic (Published papers).. The Simplest mathematics”, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.

  Mary Somerville

  Unity, Deities, Logic

  Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville (2001). “Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

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• Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

  Edward Charles Titchmarsh

  Logic, Surprising, Reasoning

  "Mathematical Maxims and Minims". Book by Nicholas J. Rose, 1986.

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• The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

  Norbert Wiener

  Fields, Logic, Advantage

  "Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth". Book by Norbert Wiener, 1964.

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• The best defense against logic is ignorance.

  Blaise Pascal

  Ignorance, Defense, Logic

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• I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Art, Hard Work, Students

  "Natasha Bedingfield Flashback". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. June 22, 2008.

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• Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.

  Rob Brydon

  Thinking, Two, Done

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like "I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus."

  Eliza Coupe

  Teacher, Kids, Class

  "Eliza Coupe on the Comedic Origins of Happy Endings, Her Passion for Michael Fassbender, and her Obsession with Ace Ventura". GQ Interview, www.ucbcomedy.com. February 2012.

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• Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Long, Laughing, Tools

  "Jennifer Carpenter: I’m ready for Deb to learn Dexter’s secret". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 15, 2011.

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