Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to… — G. H. Hardy
No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game — G. H. Hardy
Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up. — John Maynard Smith
In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure. — Hermann Hankel
Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics. — Edward Kasner
Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself. — Abraham Kaplan
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for… — Franz Karl Achard
Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems; it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not just geometry's little… — Robert Kanigel
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of… — Marston Morse
Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as dust, as exciting as a… — Philip J. Davis
Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known… — Jean-Philippe Rameau
If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it… — Eric Temple Bell
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. — Eric Temple Bell
When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But… — Edward Kasner
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought. — Edward Kasner
Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition.… — Edward Kasner
In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which will continue to… — Edward Everett Hale
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh
There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations of all natural… — Joseph Fourier
Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal. — Tobias Dantzig
[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence. — William Wordsworth
Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way. — Unknown Author
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense. — Charles Darwin
Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone. — Henry John Stephen Smith
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. — Unknown Author

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