Mathematics Quotes

If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can ...

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Mathematicians call it “the arithmetic of congruences.” You can think of it as clock arithmetic. Tem...

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there i...

The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery o...

Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the ...

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to ...

The integrals which we have obtained are not only general expressions which satisfy the differential...

The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to res...

Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discover...

There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...m...

Who rebels with mathematics?

Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of s...

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then ph...

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think ...

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language...

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an e...

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somew...

In my opinion, defining intelligence is much like defining beauty, and I don’t mean that it’s in the...

It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that ther...

I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and coul...

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious ...

I don’t deny that it was more than a coincidence which made things turn out as they did, it was a wh...

If our 14 billion year cosmic history were scaled to 1 year, then 100,000 years of human history wou...

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of mode...

Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

Luck is the grand equalizer.

. . . the world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops, causing events to be th...

Jack had wondered how geometers could be so inventive as to produce so many types and families of cu...

Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time.

If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you wan...

It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was i...

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur.

In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But...

Mathematics, which most of us see as the most factual of all sciences, constitutes the most colossal...

I liked numbers because they were solid, invariant; they stood unmoved in a chaotic world. There was...

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

In a way, mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable that humanity could eve...

When he said someone had "died", Erdős meant that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he ...

I am not qualified to say whether or not God exists. I kind of doubt He does. Nevertheless I'm alway...

In his school, Bertrand Russell thought it was better if they had the sex, so they could give their ...

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thin...

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol hav...

Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very ...

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Re...

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arg...

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematic...

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, a...

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that ...

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is soc...

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and ...

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they ...

No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply pre...

We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these ...

The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it wil...

Furious, the beast writhed and wriggled its iterated integrals beneath the King’s polynomial blows, ...

Certainly not! I didn't build a machine to solve ridiculous crossword puzzles! That's hack work, not...

So they rolled up their sleeves and sat down to experiment -- by simulation, that is mathematically ...

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi...

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and althou...

I guess a sock is also a geometric shape—technically—but I don't know what you'd call it. A socktago...

My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus tw...

An essential pedagogic step here is to relegate the teaching of mathematical methods in economics to...

To calculate 'the' fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about eve...

I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studi...

He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixtee...

Therefor I doubt not but, if it had been a thing contrary to any man’s right of dominion, or to the ...

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it t...

She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like imper...

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea...

Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural pheno...

...The pages and pages of complex, impenetrable calculations might have contained the secrets of the...

I was impressed by the delicate weaving of the numbers. No matter how carefully you unraveled a thre...

Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, alo...

His ironing seemed highly rational, with a constant speed that allowed him to get the best results, ...

Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he wa...

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and ...

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the math...

Mathematics is a terrible calling. It’s as merciless as gravity. It swallows the soul. There’s a poi...

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any mor...

[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the...

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important...

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians som...

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the sta...

Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth.

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the proble...

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same ...

I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy,...

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchston...