Dejan Stojanovic Quotes

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

I always liked numbers.

Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

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

Whenever you can, count.

I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise.

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.

I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.

Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

You’re not exempt from math if you’re a Republican, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a Democrat. You’re not exempt from math if you’re a liberal, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a conservative. You still have to do math.

I was good with numbers.

Numbers don't lie. I think it's pretty cut and dry what consistency is.

I believe only in the mathematics.

Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.

I can see that, without being excited, mathematics can look pointless and cold.

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

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

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.

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

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

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

Numbers are the most certain things we have.