Mathematical Quotes · Page 10

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

— Paul Dirac

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

— Blaise Pascal

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

— Honore de Balzac

I think some intuition leaks out in every step of an induction proof.

— Jim Propp

Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

— Charles Williams

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

— James F. Cooper

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

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study.

— Hendrik Lenstra

Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that…

— Jacques Hadamard

Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

— John Milton

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

— Norm MacDonald

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

— George Santayana

We have never pushed it far enough to know, but we decided 47 percent was the right percentage. You can quote us…

— Cinco Paul

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in…

— Niall Ferguson

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

— Aristotle

The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity…

— Joseph Addison

Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and…

— Georg Cantor

We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that…

— Hans Reichenbach

[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ]…

— Francois-Joseph Servois

Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind…

— Christopher Wren

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely…

— Paul Dirac

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark…

— Oswald Chambers

Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces…

— Isaac Newton

This harmony that human intelligence believes it discovers in nature - does it exist apart from that intelligence? No, without doubt, a…

— Henri Poincare

If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty - by forms I am referring to coherent systems of…

— Werner Heisenberg

What I realized is that if we're going to be able to have a theory about what happens in, for example, nature…

— Stephen Wolfram

Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all.…

— Charles Williams

It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrationals perished in a shipwreck in order that…

— Proclus

As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

— Walt Whitman

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Fulton J. Sheen

When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.

— Rene Descartes

Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

— Albert Einstein

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

— Karl Marx

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

— Plato

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

— Thomas Carlyle