Mathematics Quotes
1259 quotes by 594 authors
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of similar atoms to…
— Martin Rees
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The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog…
— Carl Ally
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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the…
— G I Gurdjieff
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Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery of the Mathematics,…
— Francis Bacon
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For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without…
— Francis Bacon
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As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.
— Erma Bombeck
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Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
— Albert Einstein
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The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is…
— George Polya
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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
— Robert Breault
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...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own inner…
— James Jeans
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Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that it…
— Morris Kline
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[W]hen Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of…
— William J. Clinton
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It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind…
— Richard Courant
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It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general habit of mind…
— George Boole
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
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A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of…
— Paul Dirac
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this…
— John Herschel
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