Galileo Galilei Quotes

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

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.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

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

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

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

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

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

Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit, a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry.

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

My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.

I think I still like science and art better, but geometry is a big improvement over algebra.

I think math is exciting, you know.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

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.

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

I was a mathematics major and really into math.