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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

MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more respectable. — Jim Propp

Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered. — Henri Poincare

[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence. — William Wordsworth

Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol? — Fulton J. Sheen

I love to look at you. I always think of what Gordon Prescott said. He said that you are God's perfect exercise in structural mathematics. — Ayn Rand

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

Does mathematics carry its own ontological clout? — Jim Holt

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

At its heart, music is all higher mathematics. — Mos Def

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

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. — Jean Piaget

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

Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life. — Yuri Manin

Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most. — Terence McKenna

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

There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology. — Gian-Carlo Rota

Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone. — Henry John Stephen Smith

[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

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies. — Jamie Murphy

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

This is the team. We're trying to go to the moon. If you can't put someone up, please don't put them down. — NASA

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

I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids. — Stefan Banach

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

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation. — Paul Halmos

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

I can only play the sport for so long, I have mathematics for the rest of my life. — John Urschel

A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation. — Keith Devlin

A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good. — Amy Summers

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

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

Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths. — Morris Kline

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value. — Ada Lovelace

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

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics. — Maimonides

A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser. — Euclid

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

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end. — Paul Erdos

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G.H. Hardy

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

It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover. — Edward Frenkel

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions. — Whitfield Diffie