Mathematics Quotes

Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear.

But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be organised to mathematical principles.

Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."

Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.

No price is too high to pay to try to make the financial system go on a little bit longer. But ultimately it can't be saved, because of the mathematics that are involved.

Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.

At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.

Dance is the mathematics of the Soul

The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.

My father said he did have the mathematics of mind physics, or the physics of consciousness.

The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the same.

The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings.

The Torus is my enemy!

I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics.

In mathematics we do not appeal to authority, but rather you are responsible for what you believe.

This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment.

Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending on how well librarians do their jobs.

It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer.

To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.

Music is the language of God. God's language, music, is not like mathematics or geometry. It is a language of love. If we love music, that is enough.

Rota's personality is compatible with mine.

In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

The mathematics of high achievement

As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.

The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.

The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.

Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the world than to master all mathematics at present known.

In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.

You can only be twice someone’s age once.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.

[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.

Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism is generally studied only by advanced students of physics, but Albert had mastered it by the time he was sixteen years old.