Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired knowledge," or perhaps… — Salomon Bochner
I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy… — Balfour Stewart
If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack
What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch with God when you're thinking… — Paul Halmos
[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing-one great,… — Paul Halmos
Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a clichÃ©. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to… — Paul Halmos
The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve. — Eugene Wigner
There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was… — Unknown Author
I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny. — Nicolaas Bloembergen
The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of… — Hippolyte Taine
[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible. — Unknown Author
Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning in that it… — Salomon Bochner
...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept of… — Paul Halmos
This is not mathematics; this is theology. — Unknown Author
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development… — Unknown Author
Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... — Augustus De Morgan
I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful. — Rozsa Peter

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