Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them as things at… — Martin Heidegger
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! — William Blake
In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects with… — Philip J. Davis
There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. — Bill Gates
The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem. — Israel Gelfand
The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it. — Jacques Hadamard
The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by… — Georg Simmel
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if… — Auguste Comte
In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is… — R C Sproul
A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a… — Ivan Sutherland
In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political… — Arthur Koestler
The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and… — Paul Dirac
What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical beauty.… — Paul Dirac
So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple. — Tycho Brahe
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well prepared by labour,… — Henri Poincare
It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or other of his… — James Joseph Sylvester
Time is said to have only one dimension, and space to have three dimensions. ... The mathematical quaternion partakes of both these elements; in technical… — William Rowan Hamilton
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es! — Hilary Putnam
The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world,… — Hilary Putnam

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