Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can… — Kurt GÃ¶del
The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom. — Georg Cantor
The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the… — Bertrand Russell
The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic,… — Joseph Henry
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a… — G. H. Hardy
The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three… — Murray Gell-Mann
The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite. — Gian-Carlo Rota
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or… — Julian Huxley
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs. — Charles Caleb Colton
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience — Immanuel Kant
The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation. — G. H. Hardy
The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while… — Benoit Mandelbrot
The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers. — Georg Cantor
Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal. — Gian-Carlo Rota
There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the gate… — Roger Bacon
This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking... — G. Stanley Hall
To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an… — Bertrand Russell
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. — William Kingdon Clifford
We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics. — James Jeans

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