Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That's why my… — Agnes Denes
In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, I see such dreadful consequences rising, I would be as fully convinced of the truth… — Joseph Addison
Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology. — Edsger Dijkstra
A mathematical proof must be perspicuous. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical. — David Hilbert
All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers. — Leopold Kronecker
Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems… — Neil Gershenfeld
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point… — John Edensor Littlewood
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical… — Abraham Robinson
Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear. — L. E. J. Brouwer
Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale. — David Letterman
A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that women's sphere is… — Maria Mitchell
The space that we're looking through is nine-dimensional. If you build a mathematical model, the amount of searching that we've done in 50 years is… — Jill Tarter
Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment! — Gregory Chaitin
There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening. — Chad Kroeger
In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific… — James Henry Breasted
He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided… — Charles Caleb Colton
Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven… — Charles Krauthammer
Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures… — Blaise Pascal
Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical. — Steve Winwood
I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything falls on mathematical… — Girl Talk
We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that I would like… — Paul Davies
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. — Galileo Galilei
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. — Edward Gibbon

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