Noam Chomsky Quotes

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

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world

Algebras deal not with laws of number, but with such laws of the human thinking machinery as have been discovered in the course of investigations on numbers. Plane geometry deals with such laws of thought as were discovered by men intent on finding out how to measure surface; and solid geometry with such additional laws of thought as were discovered when men began to extend geometry into three dimensions.

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

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

Mathematics is the music of reason.

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.

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

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

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

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.

Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

I enjoyed like nothing else working in pure math, discovering new formulas.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between the mean and the median? Probability fascinated me. You have to think very carefully about things, which is the way my mind works anyway.

Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual.

The best technology transfer program is that of MIT. The reason is that they do not take any money for licensing. Instead they take stock. Then they make professors available to the company

Mathematics is the true language that the universe is written in. They key to understanding the world around us.