Mathematics Quotes

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

All problems in mathematics are psychological.

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial.

Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

The heart of mathematics is its problems.

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.

Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?

There are no creeds in mathematics.

The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

All mathematics is tautology.

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

I can only play the sport for so long, I have mathematics for the rest of my life.

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.