Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo,… — Georg Cantor
The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in the arts. In… — Keith Devlin
It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations. — Felix Klein
Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of mathematics… — Ivars Peterson
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. — Charles Sanders Peirce
A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen there are people… — Henri Poincare
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it. — Eugene Wigner
Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I… — John von Neumann
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage… — Rita Levi-Montalcini
I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. — Brit Marling
The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need… — Yuri Milner
What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of number."… — Keith Devlin
In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only in the last… — Keith Devlin
Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow… — Warren Buffett
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history… — Nicholas Murray Butler
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum theory, it could… — Martin Rees
It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing… — Edmund Burke
Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic… — Roger Rosenblatt
Mathematics is the language of size. — Lancelot Hogben
There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no… — Sir John Richard Hicks
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws… — James Joseph Sylvester
At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting:… — Danica McKellar
I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare… — Danica McKellar
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the… — Afrika Bambaataa

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