Pure Mathematics Quotes

24 quotes by 20 authors

...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
[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
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
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
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
Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone. — Henry John Stephen Smith
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead
...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
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
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
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
A chess problem is an exercise in pure mathematics. — G. H. Hardy
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false). — Carl Sagan
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
The main application of Pure Mathematics is to make you happy. — Hendrik Lenstra
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
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
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
It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover. — Edward Frenkel
Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied. — John Edensor Littlewood

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