Math sayings

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◆ Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists, I discovered he only taught one class: Unlikely Maths. However, this was less than helpful in tracking him down, as according to the ledger, the time of the class was 'now' and the location was 'everywhere.

- Patrick Rothfuss99

◆ Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.

- Augusten Burroughs99

◆ If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

- John von Neumann99

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

- Deepak Chopra99

◆ Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

- Galileo Galilei99

◆ The ‘Muse' is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.

- Roman Payne99

◆ It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

- Richard Dawkins99

◆ It is the story that matters not just the ending.

- Paul Lockhart99

◆ The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.

- Augustine of Hippo99

◆ It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

- Sophia Kovalevskaya99

◆ The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.

- John Green99

◆ When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

- Enrico Bombieri99

◆ The only reason I don't know more about love is because there just isn't more to know. In fact, I've reduced love to a mathematical formula: Hdgk(X)=H2k(X,Q)∩Hk,k(X). Actually, that's not right. That's the statement piece of the Hodge conjecture, but I'm sure you already knew that.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems

- Paul Erd?s99

◆ The accumulation of birthdays is the leading cause of death in the United States and other large land masses. Now while that may not be 100% accurate, it is at least 88% accurate. Actually, the last sentence itself might not have been 100% accurate, but I'm 88% sure it was. Maybe I should just brush up on fractions and percentages before making statements that are liable to hurt the funeral industry, because if birthdays aren't killing people then it's bad for the mortality business. And if you can't trust somebody to die, then you can't trust somebody. But I'm somebody you can trust. I'm at least 88% trustworthy, at least 88% of the time. ?

- Jarod Kintz99