Benjamin Franklin Quotes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.

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

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.

There's a beauty to math. Math is so simple. It's just one step after the next.

I still remember the realization in college at Flinders University in Australia that mathematics was not just an abstract game of symbols but could be used as a tool to analyze and understand the modern world.

When I was growing up, I knew I wanted to be a mathematician, but I had no idea what that entailed.

Math was always my best subject growing up.

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

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

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 more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

I remember having this vague idea that what mathematicians did was that some authority, someone, gave them problems to solve, and they just sort of solved them.

Mathematicians are fairly cheap.

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

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.