Mathematics Quotes

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content always lends itself to the form, and it's really not mathematics.

The computer is important, but not to mathematics.

Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question.

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.

One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.

Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books.

I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.

... combinatorics, a sort of glorified dice-throwing.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful.

If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

Them as counts counts moren them as dont count

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology.

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.

Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."

We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.

Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.

Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.

Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.

Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself.

One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.

Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas.

The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.

Very little mathematics has direct applications - though fortunately most of it has plenty of indirect ones.

Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?

A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite naturally by numerical evidence.

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?