Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped. — Irving Langmuir
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising the moves, there… — G. H. Hardy
A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give. — Paul Dirac
Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore… — Carl Linnaeus
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer,… — Oliver Heaviside
The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but… — Werner Heisenberg
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of… — Lord Kelvin
All science requires mathematics. — Roger Bacon
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon
Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences. — Galileo Galilei
Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same.… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.… — Carl Sagan
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. — Edward Teller
The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than… — Voltaire
[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods. — Novalis
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova,… — Michio Kaku
I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even if… — Paul Dirac
[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact… — Bertrand Russell
Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space. — Nicholas Murray Butler
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful. — Martin Luther
As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he… — Roger Bacon

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