Quotes on Math And Science

When I was a boy I was called a nerd all the time — because I didn’t like sports, I loved to read, I liked math and science, I thought school was really cool — and it hurt a lot. Because it’s never ok when a person makes fun of you for something you didn’t choose. You know, we don’t choose to be nerds. We can’t help it that we like these things — and we shouldn’t apologize for liking these things.

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

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

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

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

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

Science is simply common sense at its best.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

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

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

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