Top 1200 Funny Mathematics Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

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

A sponge is a funny animal to center a show on. At first, I drew a few natural sponges - amorphous shapes, blobs - which was the correct thing to do biologically as a marine science teacher. Then I drew a square sponge, and it looked so funny.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

There are really funny alternative comics and really funny straight comics who write and perform traditionally.

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.

"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.

I can only play the sport for so long, I have mathematics for the rest of my life.

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

The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.

There are some women and a lot of dudes who are into my look, but I need to convey that I'm funny ahead of time. That's how I got laid. Every girl I've ever been with is because I was funny, not because they were into a 300-pound bearded, pale dudes.

You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.

[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

In every generation there are a few people who are authentically funny. The cosmetics change. You may not be able to articulate it, and you may laugh at them and get a certain amount of enjoyment. But when you're asleep at night, and you wake up at 3 in the morning, and you're alone in your bed, you know who's really funny.

The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.

Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

Sometimes I think I'm funny. But then sometimes I see myself, and I think, 'There's somebody trying to be funny.'

The main application of Pure Mathematics is to make you happy.

I think names and suits are funny. Normal names in insane situations and dumb suits are funny.

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

What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness.

People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'Well, he can be funny. But he is also very serious. He has insomnia and if we him up early, he would bawl the hell out of me'.

Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way.

I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics.

When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Girl Next Door' and 'Wedding Crashers' and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that's smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like 'Superbad.' That movie was so good and so funny.

I think we're in a really interesting moment for women globally just in terms of, like, historically, I think we're in an interesting moment for women. Because, it's important to remember, there have always been funny, funny women. Mae West was real funny. Marilyn Monroe was in one of the greatest comedies, Some Like It Hot, ever made. I mean, it's not like we're lacking. I just think the percentage of women in positions of power in all aspects of our culture is improving and women are standing up and demanding to be heard.

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

I think David Letterman is a genius. Night after night he is funny and smart. He seems to really enjoy his jokes. They seem connected to who he really is. I like watching him, and there is no one better at turning an awkward moment into something very funny.

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.

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

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

In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.

We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic, not in science.

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

People always ask me, Do you ever think you'll wake up one morning and not be funny? That thought would never occur to me--it's an odd thought and not realistic. Because funny and me are not separate. We're one.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

Instead of improvisers who want to be funny by themselves, we aim to try and make the scene itself as funny as possible. As a creator, I think that's someone you'd rather work with, whether it's a movie or a sitcom; that kind of methodology is good for collaboration. People want to be with those kinds of performers.

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

The big problem for comic art is you don't want to overwork it. If a drawing is overworked it isn't funny. It's the spontaneity that keeps a work fresh and funny. If they can see how hard you work, if they can see the beads of sweat, it's no good. I always try to make it look easy.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

It's funny because it's funny.

I can do lightning mathematics quicker than somebody can do them on a calculator.

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.