Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory. — Paul Erdos
Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy,… — Julia Child
A mathematical proof must be perspicuous. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations. — Hermann Weyl
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger. — Anaxagoras
One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. — Richard Courant
The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of… — Robert Delaunay
In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting. — Thomas Eakins
All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers. — Leopold Kronecker
Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language. — Ernst Mayr
Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society. — Richard Hamming
Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied. — John Edensor Littlewood
Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking. — L. E. J. Brouwer
The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite. — L. E. J. Brouwer
Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear. — L. E. J. Brouwer
There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis. — Francois Viete
Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet. — Francois Viete
There is no problem that cannot be solved. — Francois Viete
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. — Herbert Turnbull
Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what I… — John Muir
You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make,… — Steve Jobs
I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to… — Theodore Roosevelt
The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics. — Galileo Galilei
Nature's great book is written in mathematics. — Galileo Galilei

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