Mathematics Quotes
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If you plug in a number and the math starts getting creepy (anything involving fractions or negative numbers is creepy) ...
— Doug Pierce
Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.
— Henri Poincare
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[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.
— William Wordsworth
Many times, when children enter school they shun mathematics and science during the years when they should be learning the basics.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.
— Howard Whitley Eves
Numbers are the most certain things we have.
— Andy Rooney
The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.
— Paul Krugman
Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.
— Hilda Phoebe Hudson
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.
— John Quincy Adams
'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
— E. T. Bell
Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
— Shakuntala Devi
It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.
— Bruce Schneier
Do we use models to help us find the truth? Or do we know the truth first, and then develop the mathematics to explain it?
— Arthur C. Clarke
Yeah," I said. "You might be human, Jack, but Ariel's mathematics. She's all mathematics."There are so many things I wish I hadn't said. — David Levithan
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
— Galileo Galilei
A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.
— Bill Gaede
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
— Gottfried Leibniz
The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.
— Edward Gibbon
There are no creeds in mathematics.
— Peter Drucker
Mathematics is not a science from our point of view, in the sense that it is not a natural science. The test of its validity is not experiment.
— Richard Feynman
Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure
— Paul Lockhart
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.
— Brian Greene
I was a mathematics major and really into math.
— Mary Callahan Erdoes
I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.
— David Mumford
My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.
— Theodore Kaczynski
The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
— Bertrand Russell
You think you have troubles with mathematics ... I assure you mine are still bigger.
— Albert Einstein
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.
— Stephen Cole Kleene
Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.
— Henry John Stephen Smith
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.
— Georg Cantor
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
— Albert Einstein
Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.
— David Berlinski
There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.
— Robert Robinson
Mathematics becomes very odd when you apply it to people. One plus one can add up to so many different sums
— Michael Frayn
Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.
— Mark Z. Danielewski
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
— David Hilbert
The student is best taught who is told the least
— Robert Lee Moore
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.
— James Gleick
As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
— G.H. Hardy
Mathematics exists solely for the honour of the human mind.
— Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
A line is length without breadth.
— Euclid
Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.
— Jordan Ellenberg
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
— William Godwin
The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.
— Galileo Galilei
All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand, and the times it is not.
— Tyler Knott Gregson
Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.
— Hermann Weyl
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.
— Marcus Du Sautoy
A new branch of mathematics was developed over the last 200 years to deal with the more complex aspects of reality: statistics.
— Yuval Noah Harari
A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.
— Keith Devlin
Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.
— Earl Wilson
I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.
— Louise Bourgeois
Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
— Carl Sandburg
Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.
— Edward Norton Lorenz
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must.
— Doron Zeilberger
Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.
— Edward Frenkel
Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.
— Martin Gardner
Mathematics speaks to the transcendental, as does this extraordinary friendship. A beautiful book!
— James Tanton
I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.
— Stanislaw Lem
Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."
— John Allen Paulos
There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.
— Thomas Merton
You can only be twice someone's age once.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.
— John Edensor Littlewood
Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures ... let that be our motto.
— Arthur Mattuck
And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.
— William Joyce
Luck is the grand equalizer.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics
— Hunter S. Thompson
Mathematics is as old as Man.
— Stefan Banach
How is an error possible in mathematics?
— Henri Poincare
I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.
— John Forbes Nash Jr.
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
— Brian Greene
With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.
— Carl Pomerance
