Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have no more to… — Keith Devlin
Mathematics is the gate and key to science. — Roger Bacon
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead
I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between. — George Polya
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. — Rene Descartes
Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation. — Paul Halmos
Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths. — Morris Kline
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ... — Paul Halmos
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... — Lynn Steen
Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics. — John A. Van de Walle
Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life. — Cassius Jackson Keyser
The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem. — Keith Devlin
I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible. — May Sarton
Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics. — Leonardo da Vinci
One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical… — Freeman Dyson
What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics? — Benjamin Franklin
"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable." — Unknown Author
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that… — Archimedes
After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as… — Isaac Asimov
There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than… — Unknown Author
Mathematics should be fun. — Peter Hilton
Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself. — Unknown Author
Mathematics is for lazy people. — Peter Hilton
Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation. — Richard P. Feynman
Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and… — Richard P. Feynman

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