Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

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
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population. — David Letterman
In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is. — Norm MacDonald
Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability. — Marissa Mayer
Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking. — Nathan Myhrvold
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. — Blaise Pascal

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