Mathematics Quotes

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.

You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

What comes, is called.

It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by one's own efforts.

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may be more than half done.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.

As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics.

Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

In Mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.

The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others.

People think that mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit, it’s the stuff we CAN understand. It’s cats that are complicated.

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.