Quotes on Funny Mathematics

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.