Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because it deals with… — William Stanley Jevons
Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have. — Charles Darwin
The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind. — Benoit Mandelbrot
Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and… — Richard P. Feynman
One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical activity of the… — L. E. J. Brouwer
I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made… — Roger Penrose
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded... — Alan Turing
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. — David Hilbert
. . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a… — Margaret Mitchell
Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no… — Joseph Conrad
Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt to… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical… — Bertrand Russell
The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities.… — Alfred North Whitehead
Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be… — Alfred Renyi
How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is no appeal. We… — Unknown Author
Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically… — Keith Devlin
... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly… — Leonhard Euler
The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come up, from scratch,… — Paul Lockhart
The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings. — George Washington
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. — Marquis de Custine
All was predicted by the mathematical cycles of the Mayan calendars. -- It will change --everything will change. Mayan Day-keepers view the Dec. 21, 2012… — Carlos Barrios
There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind — Yuri Milner
By the time the average person finishes college, he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes, and exams. The right answer approach becomes… — Roger von Oech
The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians… — Gian-Carlo Rota

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