Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

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
â€¦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 trueâ€”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
Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a… — Aristotle
Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us… — Melvin Schwartz
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To… — Albert Einstein
If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot… — Martin Gardner
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning. — James Bryant Conant
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe. — Thomas Carlyle
To talk about communication theory without communicating its real mathematical content would be like endlessly telling a man about a wonderful composer, yet never letting… — Unknown Author
Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a… — George Johnson
One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have little connection with… — George Polya
A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements,… — Leonardo da Vinci

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