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Mathematics Quotes by Albert Einstein
- Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
- How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the…
- I don't believe in mathematics.
- The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.
- 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…
- Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
- You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.
- But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.
- But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security…
- Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
- Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration…
- I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the…
- There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in…
- Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
- As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer…
- Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
- Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
- Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important,…
- Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a…
- Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.
More Mathematics Quotes
- What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily… — Bertrand Russell
- In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each… — Hermann Hankel
- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon
- So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a… — Henri Poincare
- The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may… — Bertrand Russell
- The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that… — Benoit Mandelbrot
- Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh