Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change… — Hal Abelson
In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions that give you… — Gregory Chaitin
Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where… — Edsger Dijkstra
This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does. — Timothy Gowers
Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject. — Harold Morowitz
In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and… — Gerald Jay Sussman
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as… — Michael Faraday
But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be… — Lee Smolin
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and… — Unknown Author
There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly,… — Blaise Pascal
All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add… — Nora Ephron
A child is born on that day, and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual Karma. His horoscope… — Sri Yukteswar Giri
We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal conclusions and computations,… — Hermann Weyl
Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical, general-equilibrium models. — Robert Higgs
In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel… — Eric Butterworth
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned… — John Dryden
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation. — Henri Poincare
Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose… — Unknown Author
Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain goes up and… — Peter Medawar
If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons… — Rene Descartes
Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result. — Michael Basman
Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical… — Charles Lindbergh
Nature is written in mathematical language. — Galileo Galilei
The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties. — Henry Flynt

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