Mathematical Quotes · Page 48

The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or…

— Norbert Wiener

Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but…

— Joseph Conrad

Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it…

— Paul Lockhart

The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.

— Atle Selberg

Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.

— Eckhart Tolle

I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive…

— Rene Descartes

An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops…

— Susan Faludi

No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

— Leonardo da Vinci

[On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and…

— Proclus

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

— Ronald Graham

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.

— Samuil Shatunovsky

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

— Albert Einstein

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably…

— Albert Einstein

We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations?…

— Albert Einstein

Euclid manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to…

— Lucio Russo

That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.

— Imre Lakatos

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize…

— Paul Halmos

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of…

— Immanuel Kant

The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his…

— Hermann Weyl

Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des…

— Blaise Pascal

In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example,…

— Noam Chomsky

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

— Henry David Thoreau

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been…

— Alfred Adler

[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.

— Evan Esar