Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he… — John Steinbeck
I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained… — Louise Bourgeois
I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the… — Albert Einstein
I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go. — Winston Churchill
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. — Charles Sanders Peirce
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. — Thomas Huxley
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any… — Leon Henkin
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh
The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a… — Norbert Wiener
The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a… — G. H. Hardy
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble… — Alfred Korzybski
[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science. — Carl Sagan
The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human. — Tom Robbins
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore… — J. W. N. Sullivan
In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe. — Aravind Adiga
I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men… — Charles Darwin
It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it,… — John von Neumann
Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early… — Raymond Louis Wilder
At its heart, music is all higher mathematics. — Mos Def
It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than… — Robert L. Devaney
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion… — Henry David Thoreau
Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of… — Antoni Zygmund
I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is both… — Richard Hamming
This ambiguity is another example of a growing problem with mathematical notation: There aren't enough squiggles to go around. — Jim Blinn
Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series by applications ad libitum and ad… — Richard Askey

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