Lewis Carroll Quotes

My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and emotional response - for letters, to which I had none. It was because of this that I decided not to continue math at Advanced level, but chose to study history, French and German instead.

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.

Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.

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

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics. Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.

Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, “The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity’ as if it were a number. It’s not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?’ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,’ ‘truth,’ ‘beauty’—those are not numbers.

Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things.

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the universal organ for world understanding through theoretical construction. Mathematics must therefore remain an essential element of the knowledge and abilities which we have to teach, of the culture we have to transmit, to the next generation.

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

I spent my life learning to feel less.