Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing… — Edmund Burke
The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as… — James Jeans
Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. — Andy Richter
It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense. — Rita Coolidge
Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even… — Benjamin Bratt
Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate… — Max Bill
A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things. — Bonnie Jo Campbell
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products. — James Dyson
The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder… — Morris Kline
A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God. — Donald Knuth
[1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick, & in a… — Isaac Newton
Scientology is not written with disrespect toward God. It doesn't worship something that is evil. It is scientific, mathematical, and spiritual. The black community has… — Doug E. Fresh
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that… — Edmund Husserl
I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns… — Hari Kunzru
I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this… — Chad Kroeger
From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical… — Kenneth R. Miller
Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s. — Stephen Cole Kleene
I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and… — Jim Sanborn
At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen. — Louis L'Amour
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. — John Edensor Littlewood
The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales. — Benoit Mandelbrot
It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to… — Albert Einstein
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics… — Benoit Mandelbrot
[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful logical theory means… — Albert Einstein

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