Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

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
I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess and bridge problems… — Vikram Seth
I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in order… — John Adams
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon
Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle

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