The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ... — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“Leibniz said, Music is the mind counting without being conscious it’s counting. An eclipse is maths; it’s the most beautiful maths there… — Erin Kelly Copy Share Image
Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering -… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used,… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image
I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Dear Math, I liked you so much more before you and the alphabet started hooking up. Sincerely, everyone. — Khat Leen Copy Share Image
The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of… — Blake Judd Copy Share Image
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
Ride-sharing is one of the biggest math problems that's ever been approached, that's ever been attempted to be solved. — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
We believe that black holes collapse to rings hitting very fast. If you follow through the ring you don't die. The mathematics… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order… — Lauren Stamile Copy Share Image
The quantity of meaning compressed into small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
“If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
We all studied math, but we don't go around spewing numbers. Religion should be used in the appropriate way. — Chris Ofili Copy Share Image
Once you understand that there's a spiritual math, add soul to the science and subtract the riff-raff. 24-7-365, cause 9 to 5… — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
A lot of the math that I do, it's not sort of premeditated. I talk online or with a colleague, and I… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
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