Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? — Sydney Smith
If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully… — Bruce Springsteen
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. — Stendhal
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the… — Tom Stoppard
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to… — Nikola Tesla
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. — Izaak Walton
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting. — Edith Wharton
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it. — Andre Weil
We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the… — Andrew Wiles
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. — Andrew Wiles
The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture,… — George Edward Woodberry
In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure… — Steve Wozniak
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still… — Barbara Kingsolver
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery. — Alfred North Whitehead
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. — John von Neumann
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts… — Thomas Mann
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created… — John Steinbeck
One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never. — Alexandre Dumas
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent… — Alain Badiou
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe,… — Robert A. Heinlein
It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most… — Upton Sinclair
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of… — H. L. Mencken

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