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Mathematics Quotes
Most Famous Mathematics Quotes of All Time!
These mathematics quotes range from gratitude for finding a strong academic program to the honest admission that modern physics has grown so complex it can take years just to understand the math behind it. They pair with More quotes on lifelong learning.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.
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In Libya, I did well at school because I was clever. In Egyptian public school, I got the highest marks for the basest of reasons. And in the American school, I struggled. Everything - mathematics, the sciences, pottery, swimming - had to be conducted in a language I hardly knew and that was neither spoken in the streets nor at home.
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I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college.
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- Nov 07, 2020
How is an error possible in mathematics?
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One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.
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Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why.
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I was very good at history, often scoring 99 out of 100, whereas in mathematics, I usually scored zero.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the basic principles when you dealing with mathematics and Islam: Seek knowledge.
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Mathematics cannot handle physical quantities like density that literally go to infinity.
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It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
Other lines are more playful, comparing sharp number skills to teaching a lesson, or comparing scientific reasoning to reading the odds in a card game. Explore Like quotes for more comparisons that make complex ideas easier to grasp.