Mathematics Quotes

Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.

Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

The infinitely competent can be uncreative.

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.

If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.

We believe that black holes collapse to rings hitting very fast. If you follow through the ring you don't die. The mathematics says you fall straight through, perhaps to another universe.

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future...

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.

God ever arithmetizes.

I don't believe in mathematics.

I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids.

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

I would rather be right than rigorous.

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

A mathematics teacher is a midwife to ideas.

Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.

Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.

You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

You are the mountain and the valley.

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.

Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."

All science requires mathematics.

Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career in sales, but avoid one in mathematics.

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation).

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.

There is no problem that cannot be solved.