Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature… — Richard P. Feynman
The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened — Richard Dawkins
Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us… — Melvin Schwartz
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of… — Bertrand Russell
There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion… — William Stanley Jevons
I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist - all that is commonly called Science - to be of very slight… — Bertrand Russell
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. — Frank Capra
Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design. — Jacob Appelbaum
One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is. — Bertrand Russell
Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. — Unknown Author
Round numbers are always false. — Samuel Johnson
Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations. — Ernst Mach
There are no creeds in mathematics. — Peter Drucker
Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas. — George Stigler
Dance is the mathematics of the Soul — Nelly Mazloum
Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their… — Alfred Adler
There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these do not approach… — Alfred Adler
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. — G. H. Hardy
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics,… — Carl Sagan
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died… — G. H. Hardy
Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought. — Frank P. Ramsey
Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for… — George Polya
The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from… — Margaret Wertheim
The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works. — Antony Garrett Lisi

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