Mathematics Quotes

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.

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

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

Mathematics is a language

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

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.

Without mathematics there is no art.

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous.

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.

Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk of a solid ... drawn into a fourth, fifth, sixth, or further dimension.

An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed.

'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.

Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.

So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.

A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily a well-defined market to pay people.

In Mathematics it is always best to cheat.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.

Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.

To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.

Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for description and analysis of the experiential world.

Randomness is the true foundation of mathematics.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural sciences.

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to examine their transient reality.