Mathematics Quotes

It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out.

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.

Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune.

Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself

The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is feasible.

There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.

[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory.

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.

A proof only becomes a proof after the social act of "accepting it as a proof".

Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step further - our mathematicians do not know mathematics.

Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it.

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.

Every dimension is special.

The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character.

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.

Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.

The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.

A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.

André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil.

The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.

There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.

I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.

Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs.

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.

Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.

Mathematics is the language of size.

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

Mathematics is the science of patterns.

I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

A beautiful problem is no joke!