Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

Seek simplicity, and distrust it. — Alfred North Whitehead
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people… — Jon Krakauer
Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which… — Ivan Turgenev
I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the… — Werner Heisenberg
Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a confirmed lecher in… — Lisa Kleypas
I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves… — Malcolm X
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. — Albert Einstein
If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty—by forms, I am referring to coherent systems of hypotheses, axioms, etc.—to forms that… — Werner Heisenberg
There can never be surprises in logic. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more. — Amy Chua
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. — Edsger Dijkstra
... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is. — Josephine Winslow Johnson
I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula. — Augusten Burroughs
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is… — Donald Knuth
...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion… — August Strindberg
…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human… — Dan Brown
I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss.… — Winston Churchill
Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the… — Susanna Clarke
Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are… — Roald Dahl
Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of… — Douglas Adams
I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee… — Gary Larson
Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something. — Peter HÃ¸eg
Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all… — Daniel Keyes
All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in the world around… — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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