Mathematical Quotes
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.
Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.
A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.
Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.
A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...
The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma.
If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.
It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.
Perspective is an Art Mathematical which demonstrates the manner and properties of all radiations direct, broken and reflected.
It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.
A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.
Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global.
The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.
Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.
So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or mathematical reasonings.
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!
I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.
The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.
Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.
Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.
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.
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.
The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.
Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.