Mathematical Quotes

Human beings, from a mathematical perspective, are fairly limited. Two and three dimensions, maybe five, and we're OK.

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension.

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.

One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]

[Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in writings related to mathematical subjects.

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

I think I have learned to really get out of the mathematical side of myself that looks at story and story structure and go with, "Okay, well, what would people do in real life?"

Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye.

Nutrition is not a mathematical equation in which two plus two is four. The food we put in our mouths doesn't control our nutrition-not entirely. What our bodies do with that food does.

Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses

The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns that I like to recognize in things.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer.

I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.

In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.

The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.

Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.

We have never pushed it far enough to know, but we decided 47 percent was the right percentage. You can quote us on that. It's very mathematical.

We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel.

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.

I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.

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

The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.

As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.

However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient.

The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.

A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.