Brian Greene Quotes

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

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.

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

I really like maths.

I'm a mathematician and always have been, as far as I can remember. I don't remember when I first got involved with mathematics, but I think of myself always as a mathematician first.

Maths is the language of science.

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

I love math.

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.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.

I love math and was a math teacher for many years, so it was fun for me to write several math books, including 'Fraction Fun,' 'Calculator Riddles,' and 'Shape Up!' 'Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons.'