Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience — Immanuel Kant
The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation. — G. H. Hardy
The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while… — Benoit Mandelbrot
The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers. — Georg Cantor
Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal. — Gian-Carlo Rota
There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the gate… — Roger Bacon
This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking... — G. Stanley Hall
To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an… — Bertrand Russell
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. — William Kingdon Clifford
We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics. — James Jeans
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?" — Gian-Carlo Rota
What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought… — Bertrand Russell
You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can… — George Bernard Shaw
[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore. — Henry Adams
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science. — Thomas B. Macaulay
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care… — Henry Adams
[P]ure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly… — G. H. Hardy
You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time,… — Hermann Hesse
Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't… — Lincoln Steffens
Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled. — John Maynard Smith
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. — Martin Lewis Perl
Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms. — Unknown Author
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius. — Marston Morse
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have… — Mark Twain
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. — Philip J. Davis

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