Math Quotes anyone?

Question

I'm looking for some funny or really interesting math quotes that I can put up in my classroom.
Anyone know of some good ones? or some good websites?

Answer 1

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Geometry and Experience", January 27, 1921

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

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.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855), from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.
Frank Wilczek (1951 - )

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), The Nature of the Physical World

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), The Philosophy of Physical Science

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (A. L. Mackay), 1977

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974)"

Answer 2

There are 10 types of people in this world

...

Those who get binary

and those who don't!



(Remember Americans pronounce z 'zee')

Integral z-squared dz
From 1 to the cube root of 3
Times the cosine
Of three pi over 9
Equals log of the cube root of 'e'.





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Answer 3

"Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics"--Siméon Poisson
"The whole is more than the sum of its parts." --Aristotle
"The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful." -- Aristotle
"Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind." --Balzac, Honore de (1799 - 1850)
Structures are the weapons of the mathematician." -- Bourbaki
"Mathematics is written for mathematicians." -- Copernicus, Nicholaus (1473-1543)

Answer 4

Pi R squared?

Nope Pie are Round

Rev. Steven

Answer 5

Albert Einstein (to Boston Red Sox catcher Moe Berg, when Berg suggested he could teach Einstein baseball if Einstein would teach him math):

"Yes, but you would understand math long before I would understand baseball."

Answer 6

The angle of the dangle is directly proportional to the thrust provided the lust remains constant.


If you cant figure that out, send me an im

Answer 7

Entropy just isn't what it used to be.


Oops! Sorry, that's physics!

Answer 8

"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
"When all else fail, read the directions."

Answer 9

"I think therefor I am" - René Descartes