Math Quotes

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Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global... — Rene Thom
Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adÃ¨les, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number or you haven't.… — Gian-Carlo Rota
A great deal more is known than has been proved. — Richard P. Feynman
The introduction of numbers as coordinates is an act of violence. — Hermann Weyl
The higher arithmetic presents us with an inexhaustible store of interesting truths - of truths, too, which are not isolated, but stand in a close… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just through seeing but… — William Thurston
All problems in mathematics are psychological. — Pierre Deligne
To ask the right question is harder than to answer it. — Georg Cantor
A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can only specialise is… — George Polya
If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless. — Erwin Schrodinger
The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician,… — Alexander Grothendieck
It is hard to communicate understanding because that is something you get by living with a problem for a long time. You study it, perhaps… — Michael Atiyah
Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the world than to… — W. W. Sawyer
The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter. — Carl Gustav Hempel
[Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will tell me the… — Paul Lockhart
What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the validity of any… — Richard P. Feynman
There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to… — Alfred North Whitehead
The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real. — Richard P. Feynman
The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method… — Paul Dirac
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing… — Bertrand Russell

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