Mathematics Quotes

Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.

Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.

'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.

One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed.

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the universe.

A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.

It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists.

If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily a well-defined market to pay people.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.

There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural sciences.

Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't.

On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

My interests started about in science and in mathematics, I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.

These days people are much more aware that mathematics is a communal endeavor: even the most brilliant idea gets meaning only from its relation to the whole.

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

Die mathematische Forschung besteht aus 10% Intuition und 90% Arbeit.

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

Physics without mathematics is meaningless.