Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think. — Unknown Author
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance. — Morris Kline
Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics. — Leonardo da Vinci
One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical… — Freeman Dyson
All the mathematical sciences are founded on the relations between physical laws and laws of numbers. — James Clerk Maxwell
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

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