Mathematics Quotes

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Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for… — Bertrand Russell
[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in… — Roger Bacon
Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there… — Izaak Walton
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future… — Paul Dirac
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to… — Woody Allen
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose,… — Henri Poincare
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present. — John Donne
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce… — James Clerk Maxwell
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. — Charles Sanders Peirce
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a… — G. H. Hardy
As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all. — G. H. Hardy
Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. — Hermann Weyl
Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics. — G. H. Hardy
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one… — Anatole France
Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense. — Lord Kelvin
Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained. — Arthur Cayley
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? — Richard Courant
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even… — G. H. Hardy
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place… — Archimedes
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the… — Albert Einstein
I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my… — Johannes Kepler
I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion… — Heinrich Hertz
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art. — G. H. Hardy
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and… — G. H. Hardy

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