Advantage Quote by Norbert Wiener

Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found…

— Andrew Wiles

The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its…

— Herbert Turnbull

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

— Jonah Peretti

For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what the subject…

— Keith Devlin

Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from it.

— Christopher Robin Milne

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel…

— Marcus du Sautoy

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

— Anonymous

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

— John Maynard Smith

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error…

— John Arbuthnot

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

— Arnold Sommerfeld

“Why did math matter so much? Some reasons were practical: More and more jobs required familiarity with probability, statistics, and geometry. The other reason…

— Amanda Ripley