Best 579 quotes in «mathematics quotes» category

From nothing I have created another entirely new world.

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

God ever arithmetizes.

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.

Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny.

How is error possible in mathematics?

I believe that great success is possible in any field — from music to mathematics to macro trading.

I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.

I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics.

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

I feign no hypotheses.

I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.

I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

If it squirms, it's biology; if it stinks, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics; and if you can't understand it, it's mathematics.

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.

If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction.

If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number" nor "size", but always form. And among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.

If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you still have work to do.

If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.

If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

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 modern branches of pure mathematics.

If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

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

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?

I liked science. I wasn't mathematically oriented, so I became an organic chemist.

I never use a computer.

I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.

In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.

In mathematics there are no true controversies.

In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.

In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

In Mathematics it is always best to cheat.

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.