Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for… — Wolfgang Pauli
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the… — G. H. Hardy
I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day… — Mark Twain
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must… — Francis Bacon
If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression… — George Polya
If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science. — Henri Poincare
If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same. — Arnold Sommerfeld
In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the… — Eric Temple Bell
In mathematics there are no true controversies. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must… — George Polya
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions,… — Alfred Adler
In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy. — G. H. Hardy
Integers are the fountainhead of all mathematics. — Hermann Minkowski
It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists much prejudice against… — William Stanley Jevons
Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself — Henry Adams
Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical. — Thomas de Quincey
Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes. — Richard Hamming
Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. — Henri Poincare
Mathematics is the only good metaphysics. — Lord Kelvin
Mathematics is the only true metaphysics. — Lord Kelvin

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