Mathematical Quotes
710 quotes by 450 authors
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
— Aristotle
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
— Aristotle
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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
— Aristotle
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what…
— Saint Augustine
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All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious…
— Roger Bacon
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For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
— Roger Bacon
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any…
— Tallulah Bankhead
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The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any mathematical…
— Annie Besant
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As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his mathematical capacity, so…
— Annie Besant
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My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not…
— David Bohm
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No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it…
— George Boole
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
— Arthur Cayley
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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
— Woody Allen
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are…
— Richard Courant
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I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or…
— Hiram Maxim
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The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time that you have…
— Philip DeFranco
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The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic…
— Fritjof Capra
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I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot…
— Ian Thorpe
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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the…
— G I Gurdjieff
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