Mathematics Funny Quotes
No.	Quotation	Last Name	First Name
1	All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. . . . This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.	Bacon	Roger
2	As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.	Einstein	Albert
3	Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it needs only patience to ransack; it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce into possession, but which fill only a limited number of veins and lodes; it is not a soil, whose fertility can be exhausted by the yield of successive harvests; it is not a continent or an ocean, whose area can be mapped out and its contour defined: it is limitless as that space which it finds too narrow for its aspirations; its possibilities are as infinite as the worlds which are forever crowding in and multiplying upon the astronomer's gaze.	Sylvester	James Joseph
4	Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definit	Aristotle
5	There are only 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.	Anonymous
6	There are only 10 types of people in the world; those who understand trinary, those who don't, and those who mistake it for binary.	Anonymous
7	There are three types of people in this world: the ones who can count, and those who can't.	Anonymous
8	He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense	McCarthy	John
9	One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it. Quoted in: H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Revisited, Boston 1971	Hilbert	David
10	Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. Quoted in: H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Revisited, Boston 1971	Hilbert	David

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