Mathematics Quotes

Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.

I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny.

Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst.

This is not mathematics; this is theology.

To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.

Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.

The student is best taught who is told the least

Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news ... Thanks to the mathematics of combinatorics, we will never run out of news.

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'

Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.

Ask not what's inside your head but what your head's inside of.

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.

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

[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.

Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively.

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.

In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

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

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!

Luck is the grand equalizer.

It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true.

Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.

Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.