Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard. — Janos Bolyai
I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. — John Forbes Nash, Jr.
I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration. — William Petty
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half… — Unknown Author
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of… — Henri Poincare
I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently… — Georg Cantor
You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by… — Stephen Wolfram
In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither… — James W. Black
Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion. — Vitruvius
I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic… — Gerard Debreu
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. — G. H. Hardy
I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in financial… — Niall Ferguson
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle
Life is like mathematical 1st principle equation once you forget to put lim, then every steps are wrong — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly… — G. H. Hardy
The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the hard sciences so brilliantly successful. — Herbert Simon
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not first learn the… — Galileo Galilei
Young and radical, methods are mathematical. — Rick Ross
Gopal was sharp as a knife-edge where mathematical matters were concerned, but, poor fellow, he was very dumb and stupid in other matters. — Unknown Author

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