Mathematics Quotes

To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work-that is, correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area.

The total subject of mathematics is clearly too broad for any of us. I do not think that any mathematician since Gauss has covered it uniformly and fully; even Hilbert did not and all of us are of considerably lesser width quite apart from the question of depth than Hilbert.

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

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.

A line is length without breadth.

In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.

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

One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.

The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.

You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.

A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics.

The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.

Integers are the fountainhead of all mathematics.

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

The development of mathematics towards greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can prove any theorem using nothing but a few mechanical rules.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.

It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.

Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

Success is the result of hard work.

To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

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

Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants.

Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.