All Quotes

Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry.
‐‐ Ron Eglash

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
‐‐ Henri Poincare

Mathematicians have been hiding and writing messages in the genetic code for a long time, but it's clear they were mathematicians and not biologists because, if you write long messages with the code that the mathematicians developed, it would more than likely lead to new proteins being synthesized with unknown functions.
‐‐ Craig Venter

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
‐‐ Leonhard Euler

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
‐‐ James C. Maxwell

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
‐‐ Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
‐‐ Stendhal

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.
‐‐ Marston Morse

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.
‐‐ Richard Courant

Mathematics cannot handle physical quantities like density that literally go to infinity.
‐‐ Gregory Benford

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.
‐‐ Marcus du Sautoy

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

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.
‐‐ Marcus du Sautoy

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Mathematics is as old as Man.
‐‐ Stefan Banach

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
‐‐ Henri Poincare

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
‐‐ Stefan Banach

Mathematics is the music of reason.
‐‐ James Joseph Sylvester

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
‐‐ Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.
‐‐ David Hilbert

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

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

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
‐‐ John James Audubon

Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.
‐‐ Conrad Wolfram

Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.
‐‐ Conrad Wolfram

'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well.
‐‐ Mara Wilson

'Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you had Plato and Aristotle to write about what he had said. I write about them because they didn't write about them.
‐‐ Francoise Gilot

Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close it. Everybody used to say, oh, I got it all from Matisse, and I said, 'Not really.'
‐‐ Ellsworth Kelly

Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I am not pouring my guts out; I keep them inside.
‐‐ Francoise Gilot

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.
‐‐ Howard Hodgkin

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
‐‐ Karl Kraus

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
‐‐ Heinrich Heine

Matt Bomer and I went to Carnegie Mellon for drama together.
‐‐ Joe Manganiello

Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot.
‐‐ Adam McKay

Matt Damon's anti-fracking diatribe was funded by the royal family of the United Arab Emirates.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

Matt Leinart's L.A. duplex looks more like a Chuck E. Cheese safe house than a millionaire jock's crash pad. There's the requisite leather couch and flat-screen television, but the rest of the ground floor is bare except for a pile of Nick Jr. DVDs, a high chair, and a SpongeBob SquarePants director's chair.
‐‐ Stephen Rodrick

Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
‐‐ Aaron Staton

Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
‐‐ Sally Mann

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
‐‐ Carl Andre

Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul.
‐‐ Virchand Gandhi

Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.
‐‐ Annie Besant

Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.
‐‐ John Milius

'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
‐‐ Karl Marlantes

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don't.
‐‐ Shari Arison

Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.
‐‐ Adam Clarke

Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally were unbelievable to work with in 'How to Succeed.'
‐‐ Victoria Clark

Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He's a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he's half fish.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie