Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest lawsof atomic physics or even… — Willard Van Orman Quine
One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in doing so, both… — Seymour Papert
The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of error… — John Arbuthnot
Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions, and on account… — Nicolaus Copernicus
I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics. — Evelyn Boyd Granville
...Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the… — Robinson Jeffers
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes… — Carl Jung
I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle. — Honore de Balzac
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm,… — Edgar Allan Poe
The vector equilibrium is the true zero reference of the energetic mathematics. Zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium is the nearest approach we will ever… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the… — Havelock Ellis
Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a… — Andy Rooney
I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on… — Andy Rooney
Numbers are the most certain things we have. — Andy Rooney
Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is. — Andy Rooney
There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in… — Albert Einstein
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer… — Eric Temple Bell
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future. — Eric Temple Bell
Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music. — John Steinbeck
The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side. — John Stuart Mill
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a… — Robert M. Pirsig
A line is length without breadth. — Euclid
QED - Quod erat demonstrandum. — Euclid
Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience. — Rudolph A. Marcus

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