Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics. — Martin Gardner
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts. — Paul Halmos
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. — Paul Halmos
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a… — Hermann Hankel
The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated. — Edward Kasner
Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature. — John Allen Paulos
I love mathematics...principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given him his greatest… — Rozsa Peter
Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe. — John Polkinghorne
In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we can find answers… — W. W. Sawyer
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else.… — Lynn Steen
Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate...the… — Lynn Steen
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of patterns… — Lynn Steen
As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other… — William Thurston
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… — John von Neumann
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the… — Hermann Weyl
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs. — Felix Klein
Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis. — Kenneth E. Boulding
...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the… — Thomas Piketty
The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. — Paul Krugman
Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems. — Milton Friedman
Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the… — Unknown Author
In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into… — Ronald Coase
The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis. — Robert Heilbroner
There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science and… — Edward Condon
Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar. — Leonardo da Vinci

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