Pure Mathematics Quotes
24 quotes by 20 authors
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...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own inner…
— James Jeans
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[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
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While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest goal…
— William Mitchinson Hicks
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It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found…
— R. B. Braithwaite
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In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which will continue to…
— Edward Everett Hale
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Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.
— Henry John Stephen Smith
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The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that…
— Bertrand Russell
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The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities.…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more…
— John Pople
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A chess problem is an exercise in pure mathematics.
— G. H. Hardy
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
— Carl Sagan
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I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The main application of Pure Mathematics is to make you happy.
— Hendrik Lenstra
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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration…
— Albert Einstein
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The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest lawsof atomic physics or even…
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws…
— James Joseph Sylvester
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It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.
— Edward Frenkel
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Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.
— John Edensor Littlewood
Who Wrote These Pure Mathematics Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 24 Pure Mathematics Quotes as follows: