Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future. — Ralph Abraham
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions — Whitfield Diffie
In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us. — Steven Strogatz
Logic leaves us no choice. In that sense, math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their consequences. … in… — Steven Strogatz
Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead of singing, blow… — Violeta Parra
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither… — Eugene Wigner
In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at night,… — Michael Atiyah
Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes. — Unknown Author
My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part. — Bernard Bolzano
Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the… — Unknown Author
To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of… — Unknown Author
Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. — Augustus De Morgan
One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do… — Richard P. Feynman
Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer. — Edward Kasner
Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite. — Cassius Jackson Keyser
Mathematical study and research are very suggestive of mountaineering. Whymper made several efforts before he climbed the Matterhorn in the 1860's and even then it… — Louis J. Mordell
Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty. — Unknown Author
A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem. — Atle Selberg
Mathematics is an escape from reality. — Stanislaw Ulam
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security… — Albert Einstein
The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics. — Socrates
I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics. — George Santayana

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