Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. — George Boole
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess,… — Emanuel Lasker
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. — Alfred North Whitehead
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics,… — Ernest Hemingway
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it… — Johannes Kepler
If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything but zero. To… — Leonhard Euler
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to… — Thomas Reid
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics. — Kenneth R. Miller
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ...… — Al Sharpton
The gambling reasoner is incorrigible; if he would but take to the squaring of the circle, what a load of misery would be saved. — Augustus De Morgan
Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here. — Plato
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato
Paul Erdos has a theory that God has a book containing all the theorems of mathematics with their absolutely most beautiful proofs, and when he… — Unknown Author
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable… — Ivars Peterson
Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that… — John A. Van de Walle
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from external… — Stanislaw Ulam
Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And matter is made… — Martin Gardner
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. — Albert Einstein
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. — Hermann Weyl
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness,… — George Sarton
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle… — Alan Greenspan
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences — Carl Friedrich Gauss
In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album. — Daniel Gilbert
There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics. — Archimedes

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