Mathematics Quotes
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. (Quote by - Georg Cantor)
Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking. (Quote by - L. E. J. Brouwer)
It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft. (Quote by - Jacob Bernoulli)
Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs. (Quote by - Felix Klein)
Revolutions never occur in mathematics. (Quote by - Michael Crowe)
It is true that a mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a perfect mathematician. (Quote by - Karl Weierstrass)
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with facts for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. (Quote by - Ernest Renan)
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. (Quote by - Carl Friedrich Gauss)
Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around. (Quote by - Howard Nemerov)
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible quantities: a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity.-Howard W. Even)
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. (Quote by - Hermann Weyl)
A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One. (Quote by - Georg Cantor)
I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. (Quote by - Edwin Armstrong)
The paper is very heavy going, and I should never have read it had I had not written it myself. (Quote by - John Edensor Littlewood)
A mathematical proof must be perspicuous. (Quote by - Ludwig Wittgenstein)
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves. (Quote by - Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf)
We are servants rather than masters in mathematics. (Quote by - Charles Hermite)
Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. (Quote by - Simeon Poisson)
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. (Quote by - E. T. Bell)
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why. (Quote by - Bernard Baruch)
Yes, yes, I know that, Sydney ... Everybody knows that! ... But look: Four wrongs squared, minus two wrongs to the fourth power, divided by this formula, do make a right. (Quote by - Gary Larson)
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. (Quote by - Andrew Wiles)
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius. (Quote by - Harold Marston Morse)
Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with. (Quote by - David Chalmers)
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. (Quote by - Tahar Ben Jelloun)
It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day. (Quote by - Andrew Wiles)
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern. (Quote by - Daniel Dennett)
To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls. (Quote by - Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev)
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Eddington)
The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination. (Quote by - Augustus de Morgan)
I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it. (Quote by - Diane Cilento)
I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors. Everybody a mathematician? (Quote by - James Caballero)
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. (Quote by - Frank Capra)
Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong. (Quote by - Hermann Weyl)
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything. (Quote by - Pierre de Fermat)
It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician. (Quote by - Augustus De Morgan)
The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom. (Quote by - Georg Cantor)
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. (Quote by - Arthur Cayley)
With me everything turns into mathematics. (Quote by - Max Wilhelm Dehn)
Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms. (Quote by - Carl Boyer)
The study of mathematics cannot be replaced by any other activity that will train and develop man's purely logical faculties to the same level of rationality. (Quote by - C.O Oakley)
I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy. (Quote by - Stephen Cole Kleene)
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics. (Quote by - G. H. Hardy)
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. (Quote by - Edsger Dijkstra)
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. (Quote by - James Joseph Sylvester)
Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. (Quote by - John Adams)
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. (Quote by - William James)
Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics. (Quote by - E. T. Bell)
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either. (Quote by - Evan Esar)
Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. (Quote by - Jean Piaget)
Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics. (Quote by - Dean Schlicter)
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. (Quote by - Paul Halmos)
I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did. (Quote by - Andrew Wiles)
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. (Quote by - Vannevar Bush)
I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy. (Quote by - Stephen Cole Kleene)
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics. (Quote by - Gabriel Marcel)
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. (Quote by - Andrew Wiles)
There is a difference between not knowing and not knowing yet. (Quote by - Shelia Tobias)
My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history. (Quote by - Lawrence R. Klein)
Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics. (Quote by - Nicolaus Copernicus)
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. (Quote by - Carl Friedrich Gauss)
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. (Quote by - Maria Montessori)
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. (Quote by - John Von Neumann)
An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God. (Quote by - Srinivasa Ramanujan)
The Infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man. (Quote by - David Hilbert)
What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things? (Quote by - James Matthew Barrie)
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. (Quote by - Robert Quine)
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. (Quote by - Arthur Stanley Eddington)
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field. (Quote by - Paul Dirac)
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. (Quote by - Robert Morgan)
An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator. (Quote by - Isaac Barrow)
Structures are the weapons of the mathematician. (Quote by - Nicolas Bourbaki)
As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. (Quote by - Arthur Cayley)
Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary. (Quote by - Will Adams)
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. (Quote by - George Boole)
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house. (Quote by - Lazarus Long)
If there's no struggle, there's no progress. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged. (Quote by - Roger Jones)
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. (Quote by - Johann von Neumann)
Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics. (Quote by - Julius Robert Oppenheimer)
A mathematician who is not also a poet will never be a complete mathematician. (Quote by - Karl Weierstrass)
When a student comes and asks, Should I become a mathematician? the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask. (Quote by - Paul Richard Halmos)
Questions are creative acts of intelligence. (Quote by - Frank Kingdon)
A mathematical truth is neither simple nor complicated in itself, it is. (Quote by - Emile Lemoine)
The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite. (Quote by - L. E. J. Brouwer)
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. (Quote by - Charles Babbage)
Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. (Quote by - Felix Klein)
Mathematics … would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude. (Quote by - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
Mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose. (Quote by - Eugene P. Wigner)
Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding. (Quote by - Percy William Bridgman)
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. (Quote by - Martin Lewis Perl)
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. (Quote by - Henri Poincare)
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere. (Quote by - W.S. Anglin)
Pure mathematics is the world's best game. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It's free. It can be played anywhere — Archimedes did it in a bathtub. (Quote by - Richard J. Trudeau)
Mathematicians are like lovers... Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another. (Quote by - Fontenelle)
Do not be troubled by your difficulties with Mathematics, I can assure you mine are much greater. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers! (Quote by —R. W. Hamming)
There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis. (Quote by - Francois Viete)
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality? (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions. (Quote by - Whitfield Diffie)
The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture. (Quote by - John McLaughlin)
Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so what, can't we all be brothers? (Quote by - Jack Handy)
Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied. (Quote by - John Edensor Littlewood)
Mathematics is the music of reason. (Quote by - James Joseph Sylvester)
In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by. (Quote by - Steve Wozniak)
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought. (Quote by - Edward Kasner)
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it. (Quote by - Andre Weil)
Mathematics is as old as Man. (Quote by - Stefan Banach)
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. (Quote by - Christopher Columbus)
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. (Quote by - Gregory Bateson)
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. (Quote by - Alan Turing)
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. (Quote by - Nikola Tesla)
I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea. (Quote by - Frank Wilczek)
He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god. (Quote by - Plato)
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time. (Quote by - James J. Gibson)
At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book. (Quote by - John Pople)
Mathematical knowledge adds vigour to the mind, frees it from prejudice, credulity, and superstition. (Quote by - John Arbuthnot)
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. (Quote by - Camille Paglia)
So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. (Quote by - John Louis von Neumann)
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. (Quote by - David Hilbert)
It's far easier to go from the real numbers to the complex numbers than … from the rationals to the reals. (Quote by - Jerry P. King)
The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would. (Quote by - John Edensor Littlewood)
Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics. (Quote by - Edward Kasner)
As the sun eclipses the stars by its brilliancy, so the man of knowledge will eclipse the fame of others in assemblies of the people if he proposes algebraic problems, and still more if he solves them. (Quote by - Brahmagupta)
The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer. (Quote by - Stanislav Ulam)
As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest. (Quote by - Simon Newcomb)
Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society. (Quote by - Richard Hamming)
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it. (Quote by - James Newman)
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future. (Quote by - E. T. Bell)
Mathematics is the Queen of Science, and Arithmetic the Queen of Mathematics. (Quote by - C. F. Gauss)
Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics. (Quote by - Bell, Eric Temple)
The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose. (Quote by - Cornelius Lanczos)
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense. (Quote by - Charles R. Darwin)
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes. (Quote by - E. T. Bell)
You live your life between your ears. (Quote by - Bebe Moore Campbell)
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. (Quote by - Plato)
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. (Quote by - Galileo Galilei)
The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated. (Quote by - Edward Kasner)
God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. (Quote by - Paul Dirac)
One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper. (Quote by - E. T. Bell)
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater. (Quote by - Max Wilhelm Dehn)
The Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. (Quote by - James Jeans)
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. (Quote by - E. T. Bell)
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Do not falter or shrink. Just think out your work, and work out your think. (Quote by - Nixon Waterman)
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. (Quote by - Stendhal)
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. (Quote by - Izaak Walton)
A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall. (Quote by - John Dee)
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality. (Quote by - David Hilbert)
Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies. (Quote by - Jamie Murphy)
It isn't that they cannot see the solution. It is that they cannot see the problem. (Quote by - GK Chesterton)
Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear. (Quote by - L. E. J. Brouwer)
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. (Quote by - Gabriel Marcel)
May Your Life Be Like Arithmetic: Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. (Quote by - Margot Asquith)
The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems. (Quote by - C.W. Churchmann)
Mathematics possesses not only truth. but some supreme beauty -- A beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
I know that two and two make four — & should be glad to prove it too if I could — though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 & 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology. (Quote by - Edsger W. Dijkstra)
The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing. (Quote by - James R. Newman)
Complete disorder is impossible. (Quote by - Theodore S. Motzkin)
I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959. (Quote by - John Forbes Nash, Jr.)
Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet. (Quote by - Francois Viete)
I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics. (Quote by - John Henry Carver)
The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately connected with the prosperity of the state. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
There is no problem that cannot be solved. (Quote by - Francois Viete)
Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician. (Quote by - James Clerk Maxwell)
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. (Quote by - John James Audubon)
The reason we have a maths department is because it would be uneconomical to have that many people institutionalized. (Quote by - Koko Martin Sama)
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations. (Quote by - Hermann Weyl)
Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature. (Quote by - John Allen Paulos)
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. (Quote by - Howard Eves)
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up. (Quote by - Plato)
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art. (Quote by - G. H. Hardy)
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. (Quote by - Edsger W. Dijkstra)
Mathematics is the only good metaphysics. (Quote by - Lord Kelvin)
How is an error possible in mathematics? (Quote by - Henri Poincare)
How could youths better learn to live than by once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would educate their minds as much as mathematics. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The work of a teacher -- exhausting, complex, idiosyncratic, never twice the same -- is at its heart, an intellectual and ethical enterprise. Teaching is the vocation of vocations. (Quote by - William Ayres)
I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer such a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are. (Quote by - A. N. Whitehead)
Uneven numbers are the gods' delight. (Quote by - Publius Vergilius Maro)
If there is a God, he's a great mathematician. (Quote by - Paul Dirac)
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger. (Quote by - Anaxagoras)
I knew a mathematician who said, "I do not know as much as God, but I know as much as God did at my age. (Quote by - Milton Shulman)
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics (Quote by - Roger Bacon)
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. (Quote by - Philip J. Davis)
I know that the great Hilbert said ‘We will not be driven out of the paradise Cantor has created for us,' and I reply ‘I see no reason for walking in!' (Quote by - Richard Hamming)
The function of an expert is not to be more right than other people, but to be wrong for more sophisticated reasons. (Quote by - David Butler)
Math is like love — a simple idea but it can get complicated. (Quote by - R. Drabek)
I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto. (Quote by - Walter Kohn)
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul. (Quote by - Sofia Kovalevskaya)
Technical skill is mastery of complexity. Creativity is mastery of simplicity. (Quote by - E.C. Zeeman)
The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics. (Quote by - William Joyce)
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us goes mad. (Quote by - John Edensor Littlewood)
It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. (Quote by - Andrew Wiles)
To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician. (Quote by - Gottlob Frege)
If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is! (Quote by - Johnny Ball)
We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space. (Quote by - Nick Lampson)
Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal. (Quote by - Tobias Dantzig)
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. (Quote by - Carl Friedrich Gauss)
The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. (Quote by - Paul Richard Halmos)
The miraculous powers of modern calculation are due to three inventions: the Arabic Notation, Decimal Fractions and Logarithms. (Quote by - Florian Cajori)
All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers. (Quote by - Leopold Kronecker)
There should be no such thing as boring mathematics. (Quote by - Edsger Dijkstra)
The mathematics is not there till we put it there. (Quote by - Arthur Eddington)
Examples...show how difficult it often is for an experimenter to interpret his results without the aid of mathematics. (Quote by - Lord Rayleigh)
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination. (Quote by - Sofia Kovalevskaya)
The science of Pure Mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. (Quote by - A. N. Whitehead)
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. (Quote by - David Hilbert)
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe — because like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me. (Quote by - Goethe)
It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think. (Quote by - John Wesley Young)
Logic is invincible because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic. (Quote by - Pierre Boutroux)
Mathematics — the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. (Quote by - Isaac Barrow)
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. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things. (Quote by - Aristotle)
The different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)
The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics. (Quote by - Lawrence R. Klein)
No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us. (Quote by - David Hilbert)
Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's. (Quote by - Martin Lewis Perl)
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherialization of common sense. (Quote by - Lord Kelvin)
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics. (Quote by - George Santanaya)
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience. (Quote by - Rudolph A. Marcus)
Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. (Quote by - Rene Descartes)
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. (Quote by - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel)
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. (Quote by - S. Gudder)
Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. (Quote by - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy)
You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster. (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)
Mathematics is written for mathematicians. (Quote by - Nicholaus Copernicus)
Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tangible objects into the argument. (Quote by - Plato)
On the basis of my historical experience, I fully believe that mathematics of the twenty-fifth century will be as different from that of today as the latter is from the sixteenth century. (Quote by - George Sarton)
The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also our greatest enemy of our peace of mind. (Quote by - James Pierpont)
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. (Quote by - Newton)
Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them. (Quote by - Joseph Fourier)
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? (Quote by - Richard Courant)
I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about. (Quote by - Andrew Wiles)
Every New body of discovery is mathematical in form because there is no other guidance we can have. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it. (Quote by - Roger Penrose)
Mathematics is the door and key to the sciences (Quote by - Roger Bacon)
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-- an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers. (Quote by - Henri Lebesgue)
One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches. (Quote by - Jean le Rond d'Alembert)
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. (Quote by - Edsger W. Dijkstra)
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. (Quote by - Paul Erdos)
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. (Quote by - Edsger W. Dijkstra)
Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for they are made of things and circumstances of the world he lives in. (Quote by - Edward Kasner)
Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge. (Quote by - Anonymous)
My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set. (Quote by - Rudolph A. Marcus)
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. (Quote by - Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. (Quote by - Rene Descartes)
There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics. (Quote by - Archimedes)
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The imaginary number is a fine and wonderful resource of the human spirit, almost an amphibian between being and not being. (Quote by - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. Mathematics is as old as Man. (Quote by - Stefan Banach)
Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. (Quote by - James McNeill Whistler)
I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account. (Quote by - Simon Newcomb)
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time of Newton, what he has done is much the better half. (Quote by - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)
There is no royal road to geometry. (Quote by - Euclid)
Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds? (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. (Quote by - Godfrey Harold Hardy)
God made the Integers, all the rest is the work of man. (Quote by - Leopold Kronecker)
A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory. (Quote by - Paul Erdos)
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of Algebra and Geometry. (Quote by - Edgar W. Howe)
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. (Quote by - P.W. Bridgman)
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)
The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics. (Quote by - Plato)
Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years. (Quote by - James W. Black)
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe. (Quote by - Karl Pearson)
I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic. (Quote by - Stephen Cole Kleene)
Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself. (Quote by - Claude Bragdon)
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Arithmetic is one of the oldest branches, perhaps the very oldest branch, of human knowledge; and yet some of its most abtruse secrets lie close to its tritest truths. (Quote by - H. J. S. Smith)
In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics. (Quote by - James Rainwater)
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
Query 64...whether mathematicians have not their mysteries, and what is more, their repugnancies and contradictions? - Bishop Berkeley)
Numbers rule the Universe. (Quote by - Pythagoras)
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. (Quote by - Cokie Roberts)
James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good. (Quote by - Don Van Vliet)
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Music is the pleasure of the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. (Quote by - Gottfried Leibniz)
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
