Mathematics Quotes by Albert Einstein

Gravity is a response to geometry.

— Albert Einstein

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

— Albert Einstein

I don't believe in mathematics.

— Albert Einstein

What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?

— Albert Einstein

A mathematical equation stands forever.

— Albert Einstein

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

— Albert Einstein

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

— Albert Einstein

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

— Albert Einstein

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

— Albert Einstein

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

— Albert Einstein

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

— Albert Einstein

“The golden proportion is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.”

— Albert Einstein

Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

— Albert Einstein

Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.

— Albert Einstein

“In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the…

— Albert Einstein

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain…

— Albert Einstein

That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a…

— Albert Einstein

“How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to…

— Albert Einstein

Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

— Albert Einstein

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as…

— Albert Einstein

There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but…

— Albert Einstein

Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

— Albert Einstein

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics…

— Albert Einstein

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably…

— Albert Einstein

One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem,above all other sciences,is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable,while those of all other…

— Albert Einstein

It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us…

— Albert Einstein

We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations?…

— Albert Einstein

“result: every description of events in space involves the use of a rigid body to which such events have to be referred.…

— Albert Einstein

One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those…

— Albert Einstein

The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which…

— Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

— Albert Einstein

Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

— Albert Einstein

You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.

— Albert Einstein

This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.

— Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.

— Albert Einstein

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

— Albert Einstein

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for…

— Albert Einstein

Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not…

— Albert Einstein

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably…

— Albert Einstein

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

— Albert Einstein