Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

The main application of Pure Mathematics is to make you happy. — Hendrik Lenstra
At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But we know what… — David Berlinski
We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it will embrace, outside… — C. F. W. Walther
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern. — Daniel Dennett
Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to the treasury of… — Ronald Reagan
If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have,… — Paul Halmos
Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations. — Leonardo da Vinci
Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce. — Benoit Mandelbrot
One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the… — Henri Poincare
This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what… — Roger Penrose
I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was… — Andrew Wiles
It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at… — Andrew Wiles
We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so… — Malcolm Gladwell
I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of… — G. H. Hardy
It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of science are mathematics and logic; the mathematical set… — Augustus De Morgan
[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration… — G. H. Hardy
I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more… — G. H. Hardy
If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week. — Richard P. Feynman
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those that form the… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject. — G. H. Hardy
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations… — Oliver Heaviside
Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G. H. Hardy
Physics without mathematics is meaningless. — Edward Teller
The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of… — G. H. Hardy

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