Terence Tao Quotes

In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money.

No one wants to read a math book.

By seventh grade, I was committed to mathematics.

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

I would say out of all the things I studied growing up, math was probably one of the things that I liked the least.

Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.

Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

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

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

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

I went through a period of time when math was my favorite subject. Then math wasn't as fun so much.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with 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.

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

When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.

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

Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.

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

I was never good at math.

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.