Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

How is error possible in mathematics? — Henri Poincare
Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where… — Edsger Dijkstra
This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does. — Timothy Gowers
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics,… — Seymour Papert
Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them… — Herbert Simon
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until… — Gottfried Leibniz
But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be… — Lee Smolin
Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason… — Aristotle
We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That… — T.H. White
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more… — John Pople
At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead… — John Pople
Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently. — Benoit Mandelbrot
All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are surely mistaken. I… — Jacob Bronowski
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders. — Greg Egan
In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel… — Eric Butterworth
The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of the five oranges… — Dan Meyer
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. — Alexander Markovich Polyakov
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as… — Bertrand Russell
Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies. — Jamie Murphy
A chess problem is an exercise in pure mathematics. — G. H. Hardy
Nature is written in mathematical language. — Galileo Galilei
Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood. — Unknown Author
In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something practical like compound interest… — Paul Lockhart
The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'. — Benoit Mandelbrot
Mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the stars. — Herbert Turnbull

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