Proverb Math

Proverb Math

“The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.”
S. Gudder

“Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so what, can't we all be brothers?”
Jack Handy

“Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.”

“Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.”
Albert Einstein

“Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.”
Albert Einstein

“Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas”

“Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

“The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics”
Plato

“Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line”

“Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes”

“For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics”
Roger Bacon

“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”
Albert Einstein

“Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.”
Bertrand Russell

“The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.”
Aristotle

“There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.”
Aristotle

“Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.”
S. Gudder

“What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?”
James Matthew Barrie