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  • “Have I told you the golden rule yet? No? Whenever you think about using the existential quantifier, use the universal one. That’s the correct answer.”
    — Calculus professor
    • 2 years ago
    • 82 notes
    • #calculus
    • #logic
    • #art-of-dreaming
    • #submission
  • “Are you entitled to concocting universes? Yes of course!”
    — Logic Professor
    • 2 years ago
    • 92 notes
    • #logic
    • #trains-tho
    • #submission
  • “It sucks that we’re ending this semester with a lemma. Scratch that, we’re calling it a theorem. We deserve it.”
    — Mathematical Logic professor
    • 2 years ago
    • 249 notes
    • #logic
    • #mathematical logic
    • #philosobeard
    • #submission
  • “Category Theory throws the middle finger at all other branches of pure mathematics… Oops. Don’t tell your other professors I said that.”
    — Category Theory professor
    • 2 years ago
    • 104 notes
    • #category theory
    • #logic
    • #mathematical logic
    • #physicsnirvana
  • “Oh, P3 would be interesting here. But we’re not allowed to think about P3.”
    — Dissertation supervisor on homogeneous structures
    • 2 years ago
    • 47 notes
    • #punchsomeoneforme-willyou
    • #model theory
    • #logic
  • “There are only two types of Mathematics: Category Theory and Physics.”
    — Category Theory professor
    • 2 years ago
    • 159 notes
    • #category theory
    • #physicsnirvana
    • #logic
  • “If the moon is a pickle, then Dr. C is an alien.”
    — Professor using herself to demonstrate the idea of implications being vacuously true.
    • 3 years ago
    • 55 notes
    • #logic
    • #strictlyscript
  • “Your proof isn’t technically correct, but math isn’t real anyway, so who really cares?”
    — Logic professor
    • 3 years ago
    • 724 notes
    • #logic
    • #username-less
  • “Best wishes, here I should say for how long I wish, but because there are no good descriptors in our language, so I say to infinity.”
    — Logic professor
    • 3 years ago
    • 97 notes
    • #logic
  • “Wait, I’m confusing myself. Let’s start over.”
    — Logic Professor
    • 4 years ago
    • 303 notes
    • #logic
    • #markowskyem
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