Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. — William Gibson
Mathematics is written for mathematicians. — Nicolaus Copernicus
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. — Rene Descartes
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have… — Rene Descartes
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential… — Edsger Dijkstra
The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the… — Paul Dirac
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it.… — Thomas A. Edison
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer… — Albert Einstein
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. — Albert Einstein
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. — Havelock Ellis
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. — Paul Erdos
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that… — Leonhard Euler
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. — E. M. Forster
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. — Sydney J. Harris
One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem. — Stephen Hawking
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to… — Stephen Hawking
Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as… — Stephen Hawking
I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the… — Friedrich August von Hayek
A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man… — David Hilbert
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods… — David Hilbert
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. — E. W. Howe
The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a… — Muhammad Iqbal
To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers. — Paul Klee
We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable… — Robert Lanza
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. — Gottfried Leibniz

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