Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold. — Hermann Weyl
It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in line with physics,… — Hermann Weyl
There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form… — Glenn T. Seaborg
The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics. — Victor J. Stenger
Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all… — David Mumford
A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well… — David Mumford
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world. — Unknown Author
This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially… — Barry Mazur
For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what the subject is… — Keith Devlin
The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully quirky… — Jonathan Evison
This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history, anthropology, medicine, and… — Joseph Auslander
He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion. — Leonardo da Vinci
The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works. And it tells us our reality is continually branching into different possibilities, just… — Antony Garrett Lisi
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language. — Marcus du Sautoy
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. — Robert Quine
A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb. — Bill Gaede
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics. — Bill Gaede
By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share… — Rasheed Ogunlaru
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there. — Marcus du Sautoy
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false). — Carl Sagan
The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we… — Lord Kelvin
When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last 50… — Unknown Author
To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is so… — Blaise Pascal
Well, I was always... I used to get 100% in physics and chemistry and mathematics (well, maybe a couple of points off in mathematics), and… — James Doohan
Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. — Albert Einstein

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