Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces… — Roger Penrose
Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. — Isaac Barrow
But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead. — Scarlett Thomas
Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton’s mathematics… — Brian Greene
Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out… — David Chalmers
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out… — Jelly Roll Morton
Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations. — Paul Lockhart
Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We… — Paul Lockhart
Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems, to make their… — Paul Lockhart
Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure — Paul Lockhart
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or… — Paul Lockhart
What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness, — Dion Fortune
Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the… — M.C. Escher
I believe that great success is possible in any field — from music to mathematics to macro trading. — Paul Tudor Jones
This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account a child's special… — Maria Montessori
Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort. — George Polya
There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is the use of… — Hendrik Verwoerd
I didn't want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the book at the… — Jacque Fresco
Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering principles, and applied… — Jacque Fresco
People think that mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit, it’s the stuff we CAN understand. It’s cats that are complicated. — John Horton Conway
Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. — George Polya
Mathematics is not a spectator sport! — George Polya
Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all. — G. H. Hardy
Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in… — G. H. Hardy
Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity. — G. H. Hardy

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