Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable economists… — James R Newman
The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede. — Edward Gibbon
The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear in his vision,… — Irving Fisher
Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics. — L Peter Deutsch
Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable… — Simone Weil
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? — James Joseph Sylvester
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics. — Albert Einstein
Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in… — Albert Einstein
Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose. — Albert Einstein
You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger. — Albert Einstein
I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals. — Unknown Author
I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason. — Benjamin Moser
Freeman denied the claim that he was a “man of God”, saying that “the question of faith is whatever you actually believe is. We take… — Morgan Freeman
The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others. — William Thurston
Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is only one thing… — Israel Gelfand
Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil… — Jorie Graham
Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid.… — Yoko Ogawa
It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come to be so closely entwined.… — Unknown Author
I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved… — Diane Cilento
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it. — James R Newman
Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world.… — Roger Bacon
The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically. — Edward Abbey
India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs,… — Will Durant
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its history… — Louis Althusser

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