Math quotes

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◆ Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

- Mark Haddon100

◆ I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

- Jacqueline Carey99

◆ There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities... I cannot tell you how grateful I am for our little infinity. You gave me forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

- John Green99

◆ I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.

- Betrand Russell99

◆ But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

- René Descartes99

◆ Here's the thing. Math and I broke up two years ago, and now whenever we get together it's just weird and awkward for both of us.

- Sariah Wilson99

◆ The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

- Mike Norton99

◆ Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.

- Louis Zukofsky99

◆ Some people believe in imaginary friends. I believe in imaginary numbers.

- R.M. ArceJaeger99

◆ With me, everything turns into mathematics.

- René Descartes99

◆ Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

- Paul Lockhart99

◆ ...now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not on speaking terms.

- Shelly Crane99

◆ In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

- Robert McKee99

◆ I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.

- Werner Heisenberg99