41 Quotes by Marcus du Sautoy

The best mobile phone had the best mathematician. They know how to fit a huge amount of data into a small amount of space. How to do things efficiently, how to do them cleverly.

If you can make yourself symmetrical, you’re sending out a sign that you’ve got good genes, you’ve got a good upbringing and therefore you’ll make a good mate.

You know, I’m not terribly fast at my times tables, because that’s not what I think mathematics is about.

The universe cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word. Without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth. This.

The Goldberg Variations is a good example of how symmetry is not just a physical property but pervades many abstract structures.

Its my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.

Theory is needed to tell you where to look.

I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador’s job.

I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.