Mathematical Equation Quotes

Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

A mathematical equation stands forever.

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions. It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis.

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

There's a human element here you start to lose when you start rattling off the best mathematical equation to get the out.

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

The formula is the star. I couldn't work inside that formula.

"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.

1 + 1 = 2. Everything else is derived.