Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

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
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 isnâ€™t some magical thing that just started happening. — Chad Kroeger

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