Mathematics Quotes

The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.

Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

Numbers are the most certain things we have.

Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.

Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.

In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal".

Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions.

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can dwell in its natural home.

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.

Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful.

For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.

With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.

Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.

The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

Pascal Wager invented the calculator and he also said you can apply mathematics to faith in God so I thought that was pretty interesting.

At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.

My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.

No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us. Expressing the importance of Cantor's set theory in the development of mathematics.

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.

Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.

Now I'm not an expert at mathematics, but I calculated it would take at least three of me to take on one third of one of them, even if they were attacking me with just their arse.

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.

The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.

In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.

Take chaotic mathematics, for instance. The universe is chaos. But chaos is whimping out. There is no chaos. There are just different levels of order in the universe.

Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.