Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

And despite the fact that the basis of this mathematical way of thinking in art is in reason, its dynamic content is able to launch… — Max Bill
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule. — George Oppen
It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used. — Philip Emeagwali
Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is… — Barry Mazur
This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially… — Barry Mazur
You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how… — Humphrey Carpenter
The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is… — Alexander Tsiaras
College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product… — Bill Gaede
It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and so on...But mathematical… — Paul Dirac
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there. — Marcus du Sautoy
A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data. — Paul Dirac
Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field. — Alonzo Church
It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is quite different. The… — Ralph Caplan
We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might… — Don DeLillo
A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost… — Hermann Weyl
We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the surface. The correct mathematical term… — Leonard Susskind
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the… — Henri Poincare
The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction… — Simon Newcomb
It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we… — Aimee Bender
. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange… — Edward Kasner
Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite. — Eckhart Tolle
There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to… — C.S. Lewis
A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough… — Hermann Weyl

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