Math Quotes Funny Definition
Source(google.com.pk)If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
~John Louis von Neumann
Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
~Albert Einstein
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
~Albert Einstein
Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero. Mathematics – the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.
~Isaac Barrow
I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.
~Calvin Trillin
If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.
~Phil Pastoret
A mathematician is a scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.
~Evan Esar
Math is radical!
It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class.If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three.Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
~Carl Sandburg
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
~Carl Sandburg
If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.
~Richard Preston
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangestof all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes. So 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.
~Francis Bacon
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.
~S. Gudder
The human mind has never invented a labor-saving machine equal to algebra.The mathematicsaredistinguished by a particular privilege,that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.
~Edward Gibbon
Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.
~Dean Schlicter
It is not the job of mathematicians… to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.
~Samuil Shchatunovski
Trigonometry is a sine of the times.Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway,
but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.
~W.S. Anglin
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
~Paul Erdos
Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.
~Alfred North Whitehead
The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, “refuge from the goading urgency
of contingent happenings,” and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to sense tried by the present-day kaleidoscope of events.
~Morris Kline
Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.
~Carl Boyer
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.
~Eric Bell
Sometimes it is useful to know how large your zero is.The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
~Eric Hoffer
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