Advantage Quote by Lewis Fry Richardson

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language…

— Michael Faraday

The truth shall set you free. When you hear the truth, it sets you free. So mathematics is truth. It adds up. There's no…

— RZA

In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in common life,…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that…

— Alonzo Church

If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the…

— George Polya

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with…

— Norbert Wiener

So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.

— Tycho Brahe

“Scientists, famously, use a lot of mathematics, at least in many disciplines (including both cognitive science and economics). Much of this is simply statistics,…

— Don Ross

Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need,…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

— John Maynard Smith