Mathematics Quotes

What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.

Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.

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.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

I feign no hypotheses.

What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness.

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

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.

... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.

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.

How is error possible in mathematics?

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.

The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"

If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction.

Nature imitates mathematics.

A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

All of mathematics is a tale about groups.

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.

People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

Without mathematics there is no art.

I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.