Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct… — John von Neumann
If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though… — Martin Gardner
Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by… — Isaac Asimov
The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to… — George Polya
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name… — Isaac Newton
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of… — Paul Dirac
There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process… — Wallace D. Wattles
If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with… — Johannes Kepler
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. — Albert Einstein
In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all;… — Albert Einstein
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. — Andrew Wiles
So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but… — Henri Poincare
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. — John Arbuthnot
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance… — Nikola Tesla
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer,… — Oliver Heaviside
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of… — Lord Kelvin
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and… — Thomas Paine
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to… — John Arbuthnot
As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even if… — Paul Dirac
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions. — Richard P. Feynman
Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so… — Paul Dirac
[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ... — Lord Kelvin
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly… — Werner Heisenberg

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