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I would rather be right than rigorous. — Stephen Hawking

The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science. — Nathan Seiberg

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce. — Benoit Mandelbrot

The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood. — K. Martin Beckner

All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible. — Adrien-Marie Legendre

What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness, — Dion Fortune

Many times, when children enter school they shun mathematics and science during the years when they should be learning the basics. — Margot Lee Shetterly

Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio. — Stephen M. Barr

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can. — John D. Barrow

If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress. — Paul A.M. Dirac

Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead. — Ronald Graham

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics. — Albert Einstein

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory". — Israel Gelfand

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs. — Charles Caleb Colton

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers? — Gil Kalai

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present. — Immanuel Kant

Mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose. — Eugene Wigner

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve. — Eugene Wigner

Earlier traditions usually formulated their theories in terms of stories. Modern science uses mathematics. — Yuval Noah Harari

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences. — Galileo Galilei

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war. — Paul Wolfowitz

A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science. — Bill Gaede

Nature's great book is written in mathematics. — Galileo Galilei

The language of mathematics, scientific observations, and our perceptivity together knit the window to reality. — Neeti Sinha

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. — Philip J. Davis

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

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you. — C.S. Lewis

Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology. — Susan Hockfield

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense. — William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom. — Weili Dai

The basis for comprehension is theory, and the language of theoretical science is mathematics. — D.C. Rapaport

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics? — Benjamin Franklin

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science. — Henri Poincare

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. — John G. Kemeny

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician. — David Chalmers

The Torus is my enemy! — Peter Sarnak

journal Science in 1980 contending that women are genetically inferior at mathematics. — Bill Bryson

Business people need to understand the psychology of risk more than the mathematics of risk. — Paul Gibbons

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions. — Benjamin Peirce

If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious. — Israel Gelfand

In Mathematics it is always best to cheat. — Herbert Wilf

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years. — Charles Hermite

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. — Bertrand Russell

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all logic, nor all mathematics, but is somewhat beauty and poetry. — Maria Mitchell

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. — Maria Goeppert-Mayer

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts. — Bill Gaede

Rota's personality is compatible with mine. — Stanislaw Ulam

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is. — Bertrand Russell

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences? — Gian-Carlo Rota

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. — Camille Paglia

Philosophically, mathematics is not a part of science. Mathematics studies patterns, science studies nature — Lynn Steen

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter. — Bjarne Stroustrup

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork. — Elbert Hubbard

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

All science requires mathematics.
[Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.] — Roger Bacon

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

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics. — David Hilbert

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent." — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. — Albert Einstein

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience — Immanuel Kant

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected. — Edward Griffith Begle

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ... — Farkas Bolyai

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

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. — James Gleick

There are no creeds in mathematics. — Peter Drucker

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language. — Ernst Mayr

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

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

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

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

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

No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must. — Doron Zeilberger

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics. — Leonardo Da Vinci

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe. — Aravind Adiga

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas. — Edward Kasner

Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs. — Kenneth Appel

Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic, not in science. — Satoshi Kanazawa

Everything can be summed up into an equation. — Alexei Maxim Russell

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial. — Timothy Gowers

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

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically. — Rene Descartes

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics. — George Smoot

Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas. — George Stigler

There is an explicit way to define what explicit is. — Noga Alon

Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy. — Leonard Adleman

The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating. — David Mumford

Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid arguments. — W.H. Newton-Smith

Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis. — Pierre Laplace

Mathematics tells us that knowledge of all infinite futures is not possible - is this why bad things happen?

Has science killed God? — R.J. Hogarth

Mathematics is the gate and key to science. — Roger Bacon

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is. — Ian Stewart

I don't believe any scientific field to be superior to another. — Abhijit Naskar

A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God. — Donald Knuth

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations. — Ernst Mach