Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to… — Branch Rickey
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our… — Robert Ardrey
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died… — G. H. Hardy
The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then,… — Alfred Adler
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties… — Bertrand Russell
Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is deeply… — Margaret Wertheim
One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden. — Steven Strogatz
Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a very, very clear… — George Dyson
Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with… — Viswanathan Anand
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be… — Stephen Hawking
The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle… — Vijay Kumar
On the mathematical side, you could in principle build a society in which people were fulfilling their needs and flourishing as human beings in a… — Tim Jackson
Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research… — Noam Chomsky
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function… — Eric Kandel
Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its teachers.… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis
I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking… — Dale T. Mortensen
I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac… — James Marsh
Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and continues to fascinate… — Alexander Grothendieck
Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to… — Fabiola Gianotti
In the lab, we could not see or physically describe the mathematical objects that we called quarks, which we suspected were the key to unlocking… — David Gross

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