Mathematics Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am. — Erma Bombeck
Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience. — Albert Einstein
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
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
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions. — Robert Breault
...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
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
[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
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
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
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
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
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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