Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. — Unknown Author
Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong. — Hermann Weyl
One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to men. Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight - brilliant,… — Hermann Weyl
Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and state… — Raymond Louis Wilder
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. — David Hilbert
Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic. — David Berlinski
An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the… — David Berlinski
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list… — David Berlinski
For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This is… — David Berlinski
In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research. — Tom Lehrer
The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics. — Isaac Newton
There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned. — Raymond Louis Wilder
Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question. — Peter Hilton
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. — Percy Williams Bridgman
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real… — Pearl S. Buck
Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems. — Paul Erdos
To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls. — Unknown Author
The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and the philosopher (who… — Oswald Spengler
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a… — Norbert Wiener
. . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a… — Margaret Mitchell
Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any… — Leon Henkin
The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of… — Lancelot Hogben
There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered. — Henri Poincare

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