Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics,
but our philosophers do not know mathematics.
--Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
I don't believe in mathematics.
--Albert Einstein
Do not worry about your problems with mathematics,
I assure you mine are far greater.
--Albert Einstein
I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.
--Roger Jones
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules
with meaningless marks on paper.
--David Hilbert
May Your Life Be Like Arithmetic:
Joys Added -
Sorrows Subtracted -
Friends Multiplied -
Love Un-Divided
--Unknown
Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain
is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.
--Margot Asquith
"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
--Bell, Eric Temple
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
--Nicholaus Copernicus
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
--Edward Gibbon
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human.
At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes,
bathe and not make messes in the house.
--Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", (Robert A. Heinlein)
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
--Jules Henri Poincare
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.
--Cokie Roberts
Mathematicians don't crack jokes, they crack codes.
--Tony Follari Comedian
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
--M. C. Reed
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