Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. — Aristotle
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
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
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
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
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
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
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
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
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
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
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. — Arthur Cayley
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. — Woody Allen
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
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
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
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
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
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
We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical… — Albert Claude
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by… — Maurice Ravel
It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are… — James Jeans
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers.… — Theodosius Dobzhansky

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