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Quotes and sayings about mathematics 📐

Edumaps Wissen

Thales of Miletus

Pythagoras of Samos

Socrates

Aristotle

  • The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
  • Because even thinking is sometimes harmful to health.
  • ⚙ aristoteles

Euklid

Archimedes of Syracuse

Leonardo da Vinci

Galileo Galilei

René Descartes

  • Anything that is merely probable is probably wrong.
  • Dubium sapientiae initium. Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
  • Ego cogito, ergo sum. So I think I am.
  • ⚙ descartes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Immanuel Kant

  • Every science is science as far as mathematics is in it.
  • Supere aude! Have the courage to use your own understanding.
  • ⚙ kant

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Arthur Schopenhauer

Benjamin Disraeli

James Joseph Sylvester

Leopold Kronecker

Jules Verne

Samuel Butler

Robert Koch

Max Planck

Rudolf Steiner

David Hilbert

Albert Einstein

  • That, where our calculations fail, we call coincidence.
  • Make things as simple as possible - but not simpler.
  • Don't worry about your difficulties with math. I can ensure you, mine are even bigger.
  • Not everything, that can be counted, counts.
  • Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited.
  • ⚙ einstein

L. E. J. Brouwer

Moritz Schlick

Franklin D. Roosevelt

George Polya

Joseph Wood Krutch

Daniil Charms

Paul Erdös

  • You don't learn math, you just get used to it.
  • A mathematician is a machine that converts coffee into theorems.
  • ⚙ erdos

Gerhard Branstner

  • Gerhard Branstner (1927 - 2008)
  • Love is an equation with two unknowns.
  • ⚙ branstner

Gabriel Laub

  • Gabriel Laub (1928 - 1998)
  • Even mathematics teaches us that zeros should not be overlooked.
  • ⚙ laub

Helmar Nahr

  • Helmar Nahr (1931-1990)
  • Logic is the passion to add 2 and 2.
  • Statistics is a procedure that allows expressing estimated quantities with the accuracy of hundredths.
  • ⚙ nahr

Horst Szymaniak

  • Horst Szymaniak (1934 - 2009)
  • One third? Nah, I want at least a quarter.
  • ⚙ szymaniak

Douglas R. Hofstadter

Bill Watterson

Abraham Maslow

Abraham Maslow

  • Abraham Maslow
  • If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
  • ⚙ maslow

Donal O`Shea

  • Donal O`Shea
  • Learning mathematics means reinventing it over and over again.
  • ⚙ oshea

Nicolas Bourbaki

  • Nicolas Bourbaki
  • Since the time of the Greeks, to say "math" means to say "proof".
  • ⚙ bourbaki

Ronald Höfer

  • Ronald Höfer
  • Frustration and euphoria often lie side by side in mathematics.
  • ⚙ hofer

  • Der_Mathecoach
  • Math is a bit like driving a car. You don't learn it just by watching.
  • For a mathematician, the path is the goal and not the solution.

  • Kai
  • You calculate faster in your head than you think.
  • Mathematics is the only way to understand this world.

  • Brucybabe
  • Let's proceed to the proof, let's take for example...

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  • The math book is the only place where it's normal for a single person to buy 103 melons.
  • The circle is a geometric figure where savings have been made at all corners and ends.
  • The scientist is a man who prefers counting to guessing.
  • A zero can multiply existing problems tenfold.
  • He was a mathematician and she was uncountable (unpredictable).
  • There are three types of mathematicians, some who can count and others who cannot.
  • There are no stupid questions. There are only fools who don't ask.
  • Asking doesn't cost anything.
  • Love is like the number pi - positive, irrational and very, very important.
  • Mathematics is the study of human thinking.
  • Let epsilon be less than zero. ε < 0
  • Why do mathematicians confuse Christmas and Halloween? Because Oct 31 = Dec 25.
  • One who asks is a fool for five minutes. One who doesn't ask, for life.
  • How much is 2 + 2? 5 including VAT, 0 for a broken calculator and 4 for lack of imagination.
  • If that's the solution, I want my problem back.
  • It's easy or it simply does not work.
  • You learn the rule of three and probability calculation and then you still stand in front of the oven and wonder which of the four rails is the middle one.
  • We are the students of today who are being prepared for the problems of tomorrow in yesterday's schools with teachers from the day before yesterday and methods from the Middle Ages.