Mathematical Quotes · Page 51

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

— Henry Adams

In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from…

— John Edensor Littlewood

In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

— G. H. Hardy

Just go on..and faith will soon return.

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Men pass away, but their deeds abide. [His last words.]

— Augustin-Louis Cauchy

What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to…

— Celia Green

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to…

— Henri Poincare

I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to…

— Peter Greenaway

One is hard pressed to think of universal customs that man has successfully established on earth. There is one, however, of which…

— Howard Whitley Eves

Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale.

— David Letterman

...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Inequality is the cause of all local movements.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not,…

— Ada Lovelace

The chances of human beings being the only intelligent form of life in the universe are so minuscule that it's really kind…

— Zoltan Istvan

One day, when I was doing well in class and had finished my lessons, I was sitting there trying to analyze the…

— Martin Gardner

If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say…

— Martin Gardner

Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are…

— Blaise Pascal

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.

— David Hilbert

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

— Hermann Weyl

Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

— Jan Smuts

Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer…

— Henri Poincare

The further we analyse the manner in which such an engine performs its processes and attains its results, the more we perceive…

— Ada Lovelace

One thing I really like about philosophy is that it's possible actually to do work in a wide range of different areas.…

— Richard F. Heck

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

— Joseph Glanvill

This ambiguity is another example of a growing problem with mathematical notation: There aren't enough squiggles to go around.

— Jim Blinn