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Mathematics Quotes by Aristotle
- The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles…
- Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics]…
- Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason…
- The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
- The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
- Our account does not rob mathematicians of their science, by disproving the actual existence of the infinite in the direction of increase, in the sense…
More Mathematics Quotes
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon
- In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. — Stefan Banach
- I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. — John Adams
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. — Ambrose Bierce
- When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading… — W. E. B. Du Bois
- No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole