Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get. — Gary Player
I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so… — Steve Jobs
It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon… — Jack Gilbert
I work with a lot of mathematicians, and one thing I notice about them is that they are not particularly fast with numbers; in fact… — Jo Boaler
Randomness is the true foundation of mathematics. — Gregory Chaitin
In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific… — James Henry Breasted
But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my… — John Heilpern
When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves. The latter… — Criss Jami
I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just… — Brit Marling
What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a… — Galileo Galilei
Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine. — Robert Musil
Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today. — Robert Musil
In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are… — Robert Musil
Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is… — Marvin Minsky
He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided… — Charles Caleb Colton
Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology. — Susan Hockfield
For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known… — Charles Krauthammer
I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age… — George Steiner
Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and things like that… — David Gelernter
Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the universe. — Paul Davies
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. — Galileo Galilei
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers. — Galileo Galilei

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