Mathematics Quotes

Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural pheno...

...The pages and pages of complex, impenetrable calculations might have contained the secrets of the...

I was impressed by the delicate weaving of the numbers. No matter how carefully you unraveled a thre...

Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, alo...

His ironing seemed highly rational, with a constant speed that allowed him to get the best results, ...

Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he wa...

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and ...

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the math...

Mathematics is a terrible calling. It’s as merciless as gravity. It swallows the soul. There’s a poi...

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any mor...

[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the...

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important...

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians som...

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the sta...

Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth.

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the proble...

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same ...

I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy,...

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchston...

Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of absolute necessity, to whic...

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was...

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere,...

The world of being is unchangeable, rigid, exact, delightful to the mathematician, the logician, the...

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, th...

One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimen...

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathwa...

Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner,...

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics...

Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines ...

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mat...

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, wh...

While ritual, emotion and reasoning are all significant aspects of human nature, the most nearly uni...

The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’...

Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this i...

PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely un...

What would it be like, a world without snow? I cannot imagine such a place. It would be like a world...

...I guess I can put two and two together.""Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it'...

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of g...

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic...

Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathem...

I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who en...

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and...

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathemati...

The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is...

I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a for...

A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the...

Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless nig...

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of v...

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the ab...

Please give it up. Fear it no less than the sensual passion, because it, too, may take up all your t...

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behoove...

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behoove...

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behoove...

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behoove...

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...

Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene...

...in pure mathematics the mind deal only with its own creations and imaginations. The concepts of n...

The best mathematics is serious as well as beautiful—‘important’ if you like, but the word is very a...

The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empir...

...317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than a...

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

It (proof by contradiction) is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer th...

The ‘seriousness’ of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usual...

[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with w...

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it,...

The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas like the...

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or ba...

In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be s...

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical id...

Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; an...

It seems that mathematical ideas are arranged somehow in strata, the ideas in each stratum being lin...

The geometer offers to the physicist a whole set of maps from which to choose. One map, perhaps, wil...

The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and ‘pure geometries’ are independent o...

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is ...

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start...

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

In Mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.