Mathematics Quotes

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Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions. — Benjamin Peirce
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field. — Paul Dirac
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out… — Thomas Huxley
Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks. — Isaac Newton
On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to the real world.… — Morris Kline
Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. — Bertrand Russell
PoincarÃ© was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something… — Eric Temple Bell
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play:… — G. H. Hardy
Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can… — Bertrand Russell
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it… — Andrew Wiles
Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious:… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half. — Gottfried Leibniz
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and… — John Arbuthnot
The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can… — Kurt GÃ¶del
The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom. — Georg Cantor
The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the… — Bertrand Russell
The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic,… — Joseph Henry
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a… — G. H. Hardy
The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three… — Murray Gell-Mann
The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite. — Gian-Carlo Rota
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or… — Julian Huxley
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs. — Charles Caleb Colton

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