Mathematics Quotes · Page 6

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions…

— Francis Crick

“Once you found the math in a thing, you knew everything about it, and you could manipulate it to your heart’s content…

— Neal Stephenson

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

— Anonymous

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they…

— Freeman Dyson

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.

— Paul Signac

Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

— Hermann Weyl

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no…

— W. H. Auden

Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to…

— Oliver Heaviside

We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop…

— Nathan Seiberg

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to…

— G. H. Hardy

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

— Gregory Bateson

I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe in Hilbert space anymore.

— John von Neumann

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

— M. C. Escher

Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

— Kenneth Appel

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And…

— Martin Gardner

Math may not teach me how to add love or subtract hate, but it gives me every reason to hope that every…

— Anonymous

I never pay attention in math, but if I did, I still could not calculate how much I LOVE YOU!

— Jerome_siso

“For we may remark generally of our mathematical researches, that these auxiliary quantities, these long and difficult calculations into which we are…

— Louis Poinsot

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

— Lucas Grabeel

“Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.”

— Isabel Paterson

In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and…

— Barry Mazur

When Your Missing Your Ex, Like A Math Problem.

— Anonymous

Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

— Anthony Doerr

“That's the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief”

— Ben Sherwood

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the…

— David Hilbert