William Kingdon Clifford Quotes

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

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don't have an intuitive feeling for equations.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

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

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.

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

We should speak as the populace, think as the learned.

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not only the justest thinkers.

The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

In math, you're either right or you're wrong.

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.

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

Math was my favorite subject, so numbers were always running through my mind.

Math was always my best subject growing up.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.