Mathematics Quotes · Page 65

Projective geometry is all geometry.

— Arthur Cayley

“Newton showed that the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.

— Audrey MacLean

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily…

— Bertrand Russell

Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was…

— Rene Dubos

Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

— Blaise Pascal

*i open my math book* *i start to cry* *i close my math book*

— Anonymous

The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things.…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.

— James Newman

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

— Augustus De Morgan

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no…

— Plutarch

If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.

— Israel Gelfand

There is no nature at an instant.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then…

— Freeman Dyson

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's…

— Anonymous

“They come in here every once in a while, and she goes to one corner and he goes to the other, and…

— Sandy Hall

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and…

— Anonymous

“In math you always check your work. In medicine, no.”

— Michael Lewis

On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to…

— Morris Kline

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

— G. H. Hardy

“I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and…

— George Pólya

Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

— Paul Lockhart

I'm a biologist, so... Which I think should be mandatory. Biology should be mandatory. Mathematics? They say we don't know enough about…

— Greg Graffin

[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar…

— Anonymous

“ He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. { Describing the writing style of…

— Niels Henrik Abel

I didn't want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the…

— Jacque Fresco

My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.

— Daphne Guinness

Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

— Carl Benjamin Boyer

“The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of…

— Francis Bacon

The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.

— Jacques Hadamard

A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.

— Irving Langmuir

“One is not the loneliest number but zero is.”

— Boris Zubry

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

— Arthur Eddington

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of…

— Carl Linnaeus

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

— Agnes Denes

The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the…

— Brian Greene

One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the…

— Leon Henkin