Mathematics Quotes
To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.
Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."
Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or "mathematics envy."
A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened
By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.
My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.
Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.
We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.
It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn't work at all.
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.
Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.
The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle.
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
I love mathematics...principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given him his greatest game the encompassing of the infinite.
If it squirms, it's biology; if it stinks, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics; and if you can't understand it, it's mathematics.
In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.
This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.
Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.
There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else - but persistent.
A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.
Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.
Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not.
... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.
... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.
Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.
My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.