Mathematical Quotes
710 Mathematical quotes by 419 unique authors
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The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
— Euclid
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If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these…
— Edmund Husserl
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Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And matter is made…
— Martin Gardner
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There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our…
— Charles Hermite
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I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.
— Frederick Reines
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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
— James F. Cooper
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It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence worked out as one works out a mathematical equation. The international bankers sought…
— Louis Thomas McFadden
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I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in future wars, and…
— Giulio Douhet
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Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just…
— Jonathan Haidt
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The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible…
— H.G. Wells
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There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business.
— Warren Buffett
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The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches…
— David Hilbert
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I realize 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
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I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful…
— Neal Stephenson
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Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed…
— Jacob Bernoulli
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The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how…
— Roger Ascham
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