Lou Holtz Quotes

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it.

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.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

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

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.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

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.

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

if you do not appreciate the mathematics, you cannot see, among the great variety of facts, that logic permits you to go from one to the other

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

An ounce of algebra is worth of a ton of verbal argument.

Maths is the language of science.

I believe only in the mathematics.

I like science and mathematics. When I say mathematics, I don't mean algebra or math in that sense, but the mathematics of things.

Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and I do not understand why you expect a mathematician to produce it, rather than anyone else, for the solution is based on reason alone, and its discovery does not depend on any mathematical principle.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

The truth shall set you free. When you hear the truth, it sets you free. So mathematics is truth. It adds up. There's no error. Only time there's an error is when man miscalculates his own problems or his own equations.

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.