Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing. — James Gleick
If everybody who was in the Forbes 400 said they were going to create 10,000 jobs, by my mathematics, that would be 4 million jobs. — William E. Conway, Jr.
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were… — Henry Petroski
I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on problems, that I… — Simon McBurney
From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I… — David Gross
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One… — Vannevar Bush
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however,… — Sofia Kovalevskaya
I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959. — John Forbes Nash, Jr.
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music:… — James Joseph Sylvester
It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no… — James Newman
The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated. — James Newman
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are… — Richard Courant
How is an error possible in mathematics? — Henri Poincare
The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom. — Georg Cantor
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in… — Andrew Wiles
It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to… — Andrew Wiles
Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other… — William Adams
I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy. — Stephen Cole Kleene
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless… — Albert J. Nock
One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war. — Paul Wolfowitz
Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to… — Heather Wilson
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not… — Michael Gove
I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics. — Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that… — Kathryn Lasky

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