Maths Quotes: top 40 famous quotes about Maths

Maths Quotes & Sayings

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Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture. — Lawrence Young

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income. — Isaac Asimov

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

Whatever use double maths has in life is beyond me. — Cecelia Ahern

I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows. — Gordon Brown

They say that maths is a language. So how do I order a pizza with extra cheese in maths? — Greg Curtis

I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual employment. — Alastair Reynolds

By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages. — Marjane Satrapi

If you're not thinking about numbers, you're probably not thinking. — John Derbyshire

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone. — Daniel Tammet

Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man. — Shakuntala Devi

people have managed to marry without arithmetic — Geoffrey Chaucer

I wasn't lonely. I was just minus a plus one. I was never good at maths, anyway. — Rebecca Raisin

Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. — Daniel Tammet Thinking In Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our Lives

I got zero on a maths test once," I said. "The teacher said he'd wanted to give me a minus number, but the computer wouldn't let him. — J.L. Merrow

If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable — Ilyas Kassam

In Maths, we are learning about mixed factions. They call it Divergent. — Ella

School taught me how to do language, maths and science; it failed to teach me the very basics of how to keep my home healthy. — Steven Magee

Maths is totally done differently to what I was teached when I was at school. — David Beckham

Higher degree of equations in maths and life have no real solutions. — Sipendr

I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths. — Charlie Simpson

I'm not exactly a maths genius - I'm really good at maths, maths was my favorite subject in school, but I wasn't a genius. — Matt Dallas

Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths. — Harry Styles

Once you absorb the maths, it's all perfectly clear. — Elizabeth Bear

Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical. — Conrad Wolfram

You can only be twice someone's age once. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world — Eric Thomas

I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths. — Shakira

I was very good in all the maths and sciences. — Tamara Tunie

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists. — Nicholas Stern

... where there's one there's ten.'
That's crazy math. — Emma Donoghue

I wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate. — Michelle Dockery

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths. — Louise Rennison

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed. — Liam Neeson

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. — Ken Robinson

Reading was my way of not thinking about maths. More than that (or do I mean less?), it was my way of not thinking. — Ian McEwan

Torture by maths should be a felony. — Bethany Frenette

Maths is at only one remove from magic. — Neel Burton

And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end — Mark Haddon