Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time. — James J. Gibson
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's… — Noam Chomsky
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality — David Hilbert
The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form… — Georg Cantor
Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to… — Georg Cantor
The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years… — Alexander Grothendieck
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson
Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It… — Camille Paglia
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can… — Leonardo da Vinci
With me, everything turns into mathematics. — Rene Descartes
Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind. — Hermann Weyl
The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning. — Alfred North Whitehead
If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should… — Rudolf Steiner
The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws… — Rudolf Steiner
Mathematics is the music of reason. — Paul Lockhart
To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion − not… — Paul Lockhart
What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things? — James M. Barrie
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without… — Eric Temple Bell
It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found… — Unknown Author
In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects with… — Philip J. Davis
It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination. — Havelock Ellis
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. — Howard Whitley Eves
The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in… — Galileo Galilei
Mathematics is a language — J. Willard Gibbs
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances. — William Godwin

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