Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One. — Georg Cantor
A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God. — Donald Knuth
My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician. — David Chalmers
Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful. — Bob Hoskins
I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science,… — Mickey Hart
My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead… — Lawrence Klein
The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics… — Lawrence Klein
It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover. — Edward Frenkel
Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars. — Edward Frenkel
Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom. — Edward Frenkel
If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do… — Paul Lockhart
Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood. — Paul Lockhart
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. — Paul Lockhart
I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and… — Jim Sanborn
What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends… — Jim Sanborn
Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems-general… — Christopher Zeeman
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. — John Edensor Littlewood
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad. — John Edensor Littlewood
The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form. — Agnes Denes
The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That's why my… — Agnes Denes
I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology. — Edsger Dijkstra
I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more… — Bertrand Russell

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