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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
The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works.
— Antony Garrett Lisi
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
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
— Andrew Wiles
The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.
— Oliver Heaviside
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.
— Lord Kelvin
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.
— Ronald Graham
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.
— Edward Kasner
![The Mathematics Quotes By Arthur Cayley: Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite];](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/the-mathematics-quotes-by-arthur-cayley-373815.jpg "The Mathematics Quotes By Arthur Cayley: Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite];")
Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.
— Arthur Cayley
The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.
— John Edensor Littlewood
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
— Percy Williams Bridgman
I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.
— Immanuel Kant
![The Mathematics Quotes By Pat Cadigan: the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows]](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/the-mathematics-quotes-by-pat-cadigan-770691.jpg "The Mathematics Quotes By Pat Cadigan: the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows]")
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.
— David Hilbert
Good general theory does not search for the maximum generality, but for the right generality.
— Saunders Mac Lane
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
— Galileo Galilei
The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards.
— George Andrews
The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
The language of mathematics, scientific observations, and our perceptivity together knit the window to reality.
— Neeti Sinha
A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.
— Bill Gaede
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
— Christopher Columbus
Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
You are the mountain and the valley.
— Hildegard Of Bingen
All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.
— Leopold Kronecker
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.
— Eric Temple Bell
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
The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
— Arthur Eddington
The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.
— Albrecht Durer
The sky is where mathematics and magic become one.
— Tony Abbott
Logic is the youth of mathematics, mathematics is the manhood of logic. This brilliant mot of the eminent philosopher of mathematics is no
— Alfred Korzybski
Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.
— Stanislaw Ulam
I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.
— Andrea Hirata
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.
— Marston Morse
In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.
— Steve Wozniak
"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."
— Alexander Dewdney
They shouldn't be allowed to teach math so early in the morning.
— Kendare Blake
God made the integers; all the rest is the work of Man.
— Leopold Kronecker
The Golden Mean was considered a fundamental constant by the Egyptians and the fundamental division of the whole into two parts.
— Richard Heath
If everybody who was in the Forbes 400 said they were going to create 10,000 jobs, by my mathematics, that would be 4 million jobs.
— William E. Conway Jr.
Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.
— Edward Charles Titchmarsh
![The Mathematics Quotes By Timothy Gowers: This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/the-mathematics-quotes-by-timothy-gowers-1951908.jpg "The Mathematics Quotes By Timothy Gowers: This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can")
This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.
— Timothy Gowers
Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.
— Vladimir Arnold
Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.
— Lord Kelvin
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
— E. T. Bell
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.
— James Newman
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.
— Cassius Jackson Keyser
The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.
— Woodrow Wilson
Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.
— Ian Stewart
Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.
— Dirk Jan Struik
The computer is important, but not to mathematics.
— Paul Halmos
During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together.
— Ian Stewart
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
![The Mathematics Quotes By Thomas B. Macaulay: [I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/the-mathematics-quotes-by-thomas-b-macaulay-299898.jpg "The Mathematics Quotes By Thomas B. Macaulay: [I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians.")
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
— Albert Einstein
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
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
— William Godwin
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.
— Marcus Du Sautoy
When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.
— John Von Neumann
His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life.
— Irvine Welsh
Without mathematics, your world becomes foggy! For a clear vision, you need to be educated in the Temple of Mathematics!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The mathematics of biological reproduction is logically identical with the mathematics of usury. Money earns interest, animals have babies. In
— Garrett Hardin
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
Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.
— Charles Williams
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.
— Serge Lang
The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.
— John G. Kemeny
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
