Mathematical Quotes · Page 10

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

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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

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

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for…

— Johannes Kepler

[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

If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don’t know if I would be the algorithm. I’m not a…

— Lady Gaga

I think it is a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations…

— Paul Dirac

Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the…

— Mark Frauenfelder

If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500…

— Fritjof Capra

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

The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really…

— Ronald Graham

According to PhD astrophysicists and qualified American science professors, the odds of the more than 2,500 prophecies found in the Bible being…

— Hugh Ross

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes.

— Lipman Bers

The Swedish style of songwriting is so mathematical.

— Luke Hemmings

There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.

— Bebe Rexha

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

— George Polya

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

— Scarlett Thomas

Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

— Warren Buffett