Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why,… — Unknown Author
I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think… — Jacob Bronowski
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided. — Baron de Montesquieu
Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties die off somehow… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that… — G. H. Hardy
On the basis of my historical experience, I fully believe that mathematics of the 25th century will be as different from that of today as… — George Sarton
Ask not what's inside your head but what your head's inside of. — Unknown Author
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into… — Robert M. Pirsig
I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made… — Roger Penrose
I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you… — Samuel Johnson
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds? — Lewis Carroll
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded... — Alan Turing
From nothing I have created another entirely new world. — Janos Bolyai
A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite… — Unknown Author
I believe there are 15, 747, 724, 136, 275, 002, 577, 605, 653, 961, 181, 555, 468, 044, 717, 914, 527, 116, 709, 366, 231,… — Arthur Eddington
Success is the result of hard work. — Thomas A. Edison
The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove. — Paul Erdos
To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until… — Jacques Hadamard
Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the… — Paul Halmos
It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists. — Paul Halmos
Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos
The heart of mathematics is its problems. — Paul Halmos
If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow… — G. H. Hardy
The student is best taught who is told the least — Unknown Author

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