Mathematics Quotes:
Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.
topic: Vets, Coping, Mathematics
topic: Truth, Mean, Mathematics
I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
topic: Drawing, Firsts, Mathematics
... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
topic: Banking, Mathematics, Arithmetic
Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
topic: Noses, Mathematics, Wells, Math And Science, Funny Mathematics
source: "Dictionary of Scientific Biography". Book edited by M. Steck, 1970-1990.
topic: Art, Mathematics, Logical
topic: Atheism, Chance, Mathematics, God And Science
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.
topic: Design, Mathematics
topic: Fake, Branches, Mathematics, Exactitude, Exactness
topic: Greek, Firsts, Mathematics, Specifications
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.
topic: Unhappy, Mathematics, Feels, Math And Science, Great Math
topic: Mathematics, Smallest, Stills
topic: World, Mathematics, Bohemian
source: "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000. 
topic: Definitions, Problem, Mathematics, Mathematical Problems
topic: Mathematics, Calculus, Ability
topic: Beautiful, Education, Mathematics
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.
topic: Secret, Mathematics, Pure Love
There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.
topic: Men, Incredibles, Mathematics
topic: Principles, Firsts, Mathematics, Saturated
topic: Believe, Numbers, Mathematics, Electrons, Proton
topic: May, Mathematics, Proof, Conjecture, Theorems
topic: Mean, Research, Mathematics
Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.
topic: Care, Logic, Mathematics
The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.
source: "The Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton". Book by Robert Perceval Graves, Volume 3, p. 219, 1889.
topic: Moving, Imagination, Mathematics, Math Teacher
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
topic: Three, Triangles, Mathematics
There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.
topic: Mathematics, Conversation, Timelessness
I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.
source: Benjamin Moser (2009). “Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector”, p.77, Oxford University Press
topic: Madness, Reason, Mathematics
Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.
source: Edward Kasner, James Newman (2013). “Mathematics and the Imagination”, p.4, Courier Corporation
topic: Mathematics, Conclusion, Draws, Mathematics And Science, Math And Science
topic: Chaos, Mathematics, Mankind
topic: World, Helping, Mathematics, Fractals
My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.
topic: Special, Pleasure, Mathematics
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
topic: Math, Mathematics, Math And Music, Math Education, Mathematical Beauty
The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
topic: Logic, Architecture, Mathematics
topic: Purpose, Causes, Mathematics, Divine Purpose, Undervalued
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
topic: Atheism, Mathematics, Mathematician
topic: Upheaval, Mathematics, Century
source: "Brit Marling Exclusive Interview Another Earth". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 18, 2011.
topic: Brain, Economics, Mathematics
Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.
topic: Mathematics, Relation, Concerned
Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.
topic: Queens, Math, Mathematics, Natural Science, Math And Science
I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.
topic: Use, Infinite, Mathematics
source: "Vorlesungen über analytische Mechanik" edited by Helmut Pulte, 1996.
topic: Tasks, Fields, Mathematics
topic: Knowledge, Economy, Mathematics
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
topic: Mathematics, Certain
We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.
topic: Mathematics, Masters, Servant, Masters And Servants
topic: Infinite, Mathematics, Mathematical, Infinite Space
topic: Men, Speak, Mathematics, Liability
topic: Mathematics, Characteristics, Mathematical
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.
topic: Ontology, Logic, Mathematics, Hypothetical, Conditional
topic: Men, Differences, Mathematics, Chromosomes
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
source: Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.276, Melville House
topic: God, Philosophy, Mathematics
source: David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin
topic: Lying, Logic, Mathematics
source: "The designer making Rihanna, Scarlett and Gwyneth look good". Interview with Felicia Taylor, www.cnn.com. May 10, 2012.
topic: Mathematics, Mathematician, Interest
source: Kurt Gödel, S. Feferman (1986). “Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume I: Publications 1929-1936”, p.145, Oxford University Press
topic: Development, Paradise, Mathematics
Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."
topic: World, Mathematics, Concerned, Mathematics By Mathematicians
topic: Writing, Mathematics, Algebra, Writing Essays, Essays
What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness,
topic: Matter, Consciousness, Mathematics, Occult
topic: Important, Mathematics, Clock
A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
topic: Science, Technology, Mathematics
Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.
source: "The Narrow-Minded and Ignorant Referee's Report [and Zeilberger's Response] of Zeilberger's Paper 'Automaric CounTilings'". Personal blog at Rutgers School of Arts and Design website, April 15, 2006.
topic: Mathematics, Programming, Harder
Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.
source: "Randomness and Complexity: From Leibniz to Chaitin". Book edited by Cristian S. Calude, 2007.
topic: Book, Mathematics, God Exists
topic: Inspiration, Mathematics, Contemplation
source: Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.129, Springer Science & Business Media
topic: Branches, Mathematics, Programming, Applied Mathematics
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.
topic: Math, Logic, Mathematics
Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.
source: Edward Frenkel (2014). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.5, Basic Books
topic: Mathematics
It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.
source: Edward Frenkel (2014). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.139, Basic Books
topic: Secret Love, Lovers, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Secret Lover
topic: Complicated, Mathematics, Expected
source: Edward Kasner, James Newman (2013). “Mathematics and the Imagination”, p.362, Courier Corporation
topic: Symphony, Painting, Mathematics
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.
topic: Men, Law, Mathematics, Handiwork
Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.
topic: Paradox, Mathematics, Great Math
source: "A scientist by choice". Speech by acceptance of the Kyoto Prize, 1991.
topic: Creating, Mathematics, Faster
Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
source: Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”
topic: Science, Mathematics, Obvious, Math Teacher, Mathematics And Science
source: Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”
topic: Mathematics, Abstract, Practicals
topic: Opponents, Logic, Mathematics
source: Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books
topic: Games, Paper, Mathematics
source: Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”
topic: Immortality, Mathematics, Mark, Mathematics By Mathematicians, Youthfulness
A line is length without breadth.
source: 'Elementa' bk. 1, definition 2
topic: Lines, Mathematics, Length
The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.
topic: Science, Efficiency, Mathematics
topic: Intuition, Mathematics, Proof
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
topic: Inspirational, Real, Mathematics
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
source: G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.115, Cambridge University Press
topic: Art, Creative, Mathematics, Creative Art
topic: Technique, Taught, Mathematics
topic: Achievement, Mathematics, Endure
topic: Degrees, Economy, Mathematics, Great Math, Unexpectedness
The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics.
topic: Doe, Needs, Mathematics
topic: Lying, Ideas, Mathematics, Theorems
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.
topic: Creative, Mathematics, Contemplative, Being Silly
topic: Queens, Thinking, Mathematics, Exact Sciences
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
topic: Logic, Mathematics
A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.
source: "Infinity and the Mind". Book by Rudy Rucker, 1982.
topic: Mathematics
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
source: Doctoral thesis, 1867.
topic: Art, Mathematics, Higher
topic: Fall, Numbers, Mathematics
I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.
topic: Brain, Becoming, Mathematics
Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.
topic: Effort, Mathematics, Seeing The Truth
Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.
topic: Way, Mathematics, Obvious, Mathematical Logic, Mathematical Proof
topic: Art, Mathematics, Mathematical, Math And Music, Math And Science
Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.
topic: Parent, Mathematics, Interest
If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction.
topic: Ideas, Mathematics, Prove It
source: Gian-Carlo Rota (2009). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.213, Springer Science & Business Media
topic: Mathematics
source: Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota, Jacob T. Schwartz (2009). “Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy”, p.155, Springer Science & Business Media
topic: Navigation, Scylla, Mathematics, Treacherous, Layman
The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.
topic: Progress, Infinite, Mathematics
Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.
source: Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota, Jacob T. Schwartz (2008). “Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy”, p.155, Springer Science & Business Media
topic: Successful, Meals, Mathematics
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics.
topic: World, Fantasy, Mathematics, Math And Love, Math Love
source: Harold Davenport (1970). “The higher arithmetic: an introduction to the theory of numbers”
topic: Simple, Mathematics, Arithmetic
The main application of Pure Mathematics is to make you happy.
topic: Mathematics, Make You Happy, Application
Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study.
topic: Numbers, Study, Mathematics
source: Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.746, Modern Library
topic: Intuition, Logic, Mathematics
topic: Wish, Study, Mathematics
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.
source: Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.85, Modern Library
topic: Mathematics, Geometry, Theorems
topic: Simple, Chance, Mathematics
Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.
topic: Generations, Disease, Mathematics
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
topic: Atoms, Mathematics, Fingers, Fortuitous
A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.
topic: Numbers, Mathematics, Clotheslines, Hang Ups, Sequence
Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.
topic: Substance, Mathematics, Mathematical
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
source: Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.70, Courier Corporation
topic: Reality, Long, Mathematics
Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.
topic: Lasts, Mathematics
topic: Feelings, Statistics, Mathematics, Mathematical Logic, Manipulator
That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.
topic: Stuff, Sometimes, Mathematics
A good student is one who will teach you something.
topic: Education, Students, Mathematics, Good Students
A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.
source: Irving Langmuir (1962). “The Collected Works of Irving Langmuir: Langmuir, the man and the scientist, including a biography by Albert Rosenfield”
topic: Doe, Mathematics, Chemist
source: Isaac Barrow (1734). “The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge”, p.28
topic: Foundation, Affair, Mathematics, Mathematics And Science, Math And Science
A proof only becomes a proof after the social act of "accepting it as a proof".
topic: Mathematics, Social, Accepting
source: James Joseph Sylvester (1870). “The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Together with an Annotated Reprint of the Inaugural Presidential Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter”, p.119
topic: Taste, Mathematics, Natural, Prerogative
We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.
topic: Mathematics
Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.
topic: Sensual, Logic, Mathematics, Linguistics, Linguists
source: Jean-Philippe Rameau (1971). “Traite de l'harmonie reduites a ses principes naturels”, p.35, Courier Corporation
topic: Principles, Mathematics, Aids
source: Jonathan P. Binstock, Jim Sanborn (2003). “Atomic Time: Pure Science and Seduction”, Corcoran Gallery Of Art
topic: Realization, Cryptography, Mathematics, Affected
Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.
topic: World, Mathematics, Geometry, Beauty Of The World
topic: Philosophical, Pleasure, Mathematics, Calculations
source: John Allen Paulos (2008). “Once Upon A Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic Of Stories”, p.61, Hachette UK
topic: Simple, Mathematics, Made, Fractals, Convoluted
source: John Allen Paulos (2007). “Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up”, p.8, Macmillan
topic: Mathematics, States, Laconic
topic: Example, Purpose, Mathematics, Theorems
What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.
source: John D. Barrow (1999). “Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits”, p.252, Oxford University Press on Demand
topic: Science, Mathematics
A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.
topic: Art, Unique, Mathematics, Unique Things
topic: Would Be, Creation, Mathematics
A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.
topic: Mathematics, Relation, Collections, Miscellany
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.
source: John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.103, Cambridge University Press
topic: Mad, Mathematics, Proportion
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.
source: John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.24, Cambridge University Press
topic: Paper, Dozen, Mathematics, Math And Science, Good Math
topic: Science, Computer, Mathematics
I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.
topic: Math, Physics, Mathematics
Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
source: "Writings and drawings".
topic: Dancing, Dull, Mathematics
topic: Mathematics, Easier, Clear, Muddle
Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.
source: John Maynard Smith (1988). “Games, sex and evolution”, Prentice Hall
topic: Evolution, Mathematics, Natural
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
source: Quoted in Gary Zukav, The DancingWu Li Masters (1979)
topic: Science, Men, Mathematics, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics By Mathematicians
topic: Algorithms, Physics, Mathematics, Differential Equations
source: Jon Elster (1999). “Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions”, p.65, Cambridge University Press
topic: Science, Action, Mathematics
If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.
topic: Mathematics, Should, Fortune
topic: India, Seven, Mathematics
source: "The Days of My Life : An Autobiography" by Julius Sumner Miller, (p. 212), 1989.
topic: Nature, Purpose, Mathematics
topic: Important, Needs, Mathematics
Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.
topic: Economics, Mathematics, Rigor, Rigor Mortis
Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.
topic: Mind, Machines, Mathematics
Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.
topic: Mathematics, Made, Software, Lisp
Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.
topic: Thinking, Mathematics
topic: Numbers, Mathematics, Natural, Multiplication
Mathematics is the language of size.
source: "Mathematics for the Million". Book by Lancelot Hogben, 1937.
topic: Size, Language, Mathematics
Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.
source: "SCIENTIST AT WORK: Leonard Adleman; Hitting the High Spots Of Computer Theory" by Gina Kolata, www.nytimes.com. 1994.
topic: Philosophy, Science, Mathematics, Accounting
topic: Simple, Mathematics, Form, Integers
Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes.
topic: Dirty, Mathematics, Tricks, Dirty Jokes
Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.
topic: Mathematics, Metaphysics, Math And Love, Mathematics And Science, Math Love
source: "Life of Lord Kelvin". Book by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, 1910.
topic: Common Sense, Imagine, Mathematics
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
topic: Philosophical, Mountain, Mathematics, Math And Love, Math Love
topic: Science, Mathematics
Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.
topic: Science, Understanding, Mathematics, Lack Of Understanding
source: "'I'm not very fast at my times tables'". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.
topic: Thinking, Tables, Mathematics