[funny-bone] Humor: mathematics

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                A Number of Math Quotes

"Math illiteracy strikes 8 out of 5 people."

"Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and
teaching mathematics."     Simon Poisson.

"According to my calculations, this problem doesn't exist"

"Belief is no substitute for arithmetic."     Henry Spencer.

"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."     Albert Einstein (1879-1955).

"Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive."

"One has to be able to count, if only so that at fifty one doesn't
marry a girl of twenty."     Maxim Gorky.

"Moriarty:  How are you at Mathematics ?
Harry Secombe:  I speak it like a native."
Spike Milligan (1918-), British comic actor and author.

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics.
I can assure you mine are still greater."     Albert Einstein.

"Round numbers are always false." Samuel Johnson (1709-84),
British lexicographer.

"No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number
expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways."
Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920), Indian mathematician. The
mathematician G. H. Hardy had referred to the number '1729' as 'dull'.

"Engineers think that equations approximate the real world.
Scientists think that the real world approximates equations.
Mathematicians are unable to make the connection."

"Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math."     Bumper sticker.

"It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a
sense of humour."     Montesquieu (1689-1755) about Leibniz (1646-1716).

"It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered
recently is four times bigger than the previous ord."  John Blasik.

"There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't."
 Bumper sticker.

"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they
are doing something very clever when they are only wasting
their time."     George Bernard Shaw.

"The number you have dialed is imaginary. Rotate phone 90 degrees
and try again."


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