Mathematical Quotes

710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors

Like MoliÃ¨re's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware… — Ernest Nagel
Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection… — Chen-Ning Yang
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the world… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in… — Joseph Murray
Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of… — Robert Kanigel
The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination. — Augustus De Morgan
The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its nature… — Herbert Turnbull
The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over… — Arthur M. Wellington
[Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for which a mathematical department existed.… — Julian Coolidge
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the… — Thomas Sprat
How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him… — Clifford Truesdell
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much… — Clifford Truesdell
A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma. — Sri Yukteswar Giri
317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is… — G. H. Hardy
It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that hardly deserves the… — Gottlob Frege
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar… — Nikola Tesla
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find… — John D. Barrow

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