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Mathematics Quotes by John von Neumann
- The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything…
- I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe in Hilbert space anymore.
- It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it,…
- Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I…
- Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
- If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
- A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly know…
- By and large it is uniformly true that in mathematics there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment it becomes useful;…
- The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any science…
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- 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