Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

The only reason that we like complex numbers is that we don't like real numbers. — Unknown Author
The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I should… — Rene Thom
A beautiful problem is no joke! — Unknown Author
Mathematics is an escape from reality. — Stanislaw Ulam
I never use a computer. — Andrew Wiles
When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and… — Kenneth G. Wilson
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security… — Albert Einstein
The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics. — Socrates
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor… — Unknown Author
Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer. — Isaac Asimov
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind. — Honore de Balzac
I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. — Evan Esar
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that? — Lewis Carroll
Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment… — James Clerk Maxwell
Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding. — Percy Williams Bridgman
To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell
I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics. — George Santayana
If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve. — Norman Mailer
In my free time I do differential and integral calculus. — Karl Marx
How is error possible in mathematics? — Henri Poincare
But if two and two and fifty make a million,... — Pete Seeger

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