Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process… — Oliver Heaviside
The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming.… — Paul Davies
Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program. — Seth Klarman
If you attack a mathematical problem directly, very often you come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to work and you feel that… — Michael Atiyah
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! — Edmund Husserl
Fourier is a mathematical poem. — Lord Kelvin
The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker… — Sergey Brin
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. — Aristotle
The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay,… — Stephen Wolfram
I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very… — Alonzo Church
I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the figures the meanings… — Johannes Kepler
Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those conceptions of form… — Charles Kingsley
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ... — Farkas Bolyai
We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of science are mathematics and logic; the mathematical set… — Augustus De Morgan
Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and… — Richard P. Feynman
The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the… — James Clerk Maxwell
To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is… — Arthur Eddington
There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is. — Russell Crowe
More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an effective… — David Berlinski
It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe… — Bertrand Russell
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that… — Edmund Leach
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those that form the… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations… — Oliver Heaviside
The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which… — G. H. Hardy
When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical… — Vladimir Kramnik

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