Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

What binds us to space-time is our rest mass, which prevents us from flying at the speed of light, when time stops and space loses… — IU?. I. Manin
What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer. — Salomon Bochner
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
While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest goal… — Unknown Author
With the exception of the geometrical series, there does not exist in all of mathematics a single infinite series the sum of which has been… — Niels Henrik Abel
[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
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the best… — Alexander Markovich Polyakov
Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics. — Eric Temple Bell
Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
...while there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model… — Hilary Putnam
If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to… — Edgar Cayce
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the… — Carl Gustav Hempel
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
Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years… — Marcel Achard
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry. — Stephen Hawking
I don't believe in mathematics. — Albert Einstein
I will live a hope-filled life every day. I will handle my problems as opportunities in a different, more effective manner, based on the power… — Zig Ziglar
Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for description… — Hyman Bass
Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired to reply, "If… — Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as do the structures… — Keith Devlin
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain… — M.C. Escher
For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art. — M.C. Escher
It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itself by… — Howard Whitley Eves
Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them. — Joseph Fourier

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