Terence Tao Quotes

Whenever you can, count.

I really love numbers.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.

It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.

I was good with numbers.

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

My talent is numbers.

I love math.

I'm not too worried about stats and stuff like that.

I have never been a stats person.

Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

All science requires mathematics.

Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

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

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.

Seeing there is nothing that is so troublesome to mathematical practice, nor that doth more molest and hinder calculators, than the multiplications, divisions, square and cubical extractions of great numbers.... I began therefore to consider in my mind by what certain and ready art I might remove those hindrances.

I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.

I really like maths.

Maths is the language of science.