Mathematical Quotes

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.

The more you know, the less sure you are.

Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

Je serais reconnaissant a toute personne ayant compris cette demonstration de me l'expliquer.

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

Numbers rule the universe.

Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

With me,
everything turns into mathematics.

All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.

The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

The infinitely competent can be uncreative.

If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

God ever arithmetizes.

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from external affairs. Some practice it as if using a drug.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

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

Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

Mathematical Analysis is as extensive as nature herself.

There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.

... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.

Projective geometry is all geometry.

How is error possible in mathematics?

Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any mathematical proposition, while the other asserts that his existence is not demonstrable to the intellect.

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.