Mathematical Quotes · Page 7

There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational,

— Stephen Hawking

The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them.

— Sun Tzu

The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more…

— John von Neumann

Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.

— Isaac Asimov

I would also like to see children aged between 11 and 18 taught financial education in a structured way in schools. I…

— George Osborne

The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious…

— James Joseph Sylvester

The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit.…

— George Dantzig

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant…

— John von Neumann

Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and…

— Eric Kandel

To throw in a fair game at Hazards only three-spots, when something great is at stake, or some business is the hazard,…

— Gerolamo Cardano

That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?

— Shmuel Weinberger

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

— Ronald Fisher

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to…

— David Hilbert

It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no…

— Henry John Stephen Smith

Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

— Max Tegmark

These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult…

— Rene Descartes

Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.

— Eric Temple Bell

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

— Nathan Myhrvold

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

— James Dyson

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the…

— Ada Lovelace

When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is…

— Edward Kasner

[Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in…

— James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

— Paul Klee