Best 579 quotes in «mathematics quotes» category

It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.

It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.

It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists.

I was brought up on rock-'n'-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn't get interested in anything else - I tried and tried but I couldn't get into science...or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.

It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.

I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.

Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes.

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.

Mathematics is not a spectator sport!

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.

Mathematics is really an art, not a science. You could say science also is an art. So I would say the difference is something you can't really describe - you can only recognize. You hear somebody playing the violin, and it was Fritz Kreisler or it was somebody else, and you can tell the difference. It is so in almost every art. We just don't understand why it is that there are just a few people who are just completely off the scale and the rest of them are just mediocre. And we don't know why. But I say it's certainly true of mathematics.

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

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful.

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

Mathematicians have never been in full agreement on their science, though it is said to be the science of self-evident verities -- absolute, indisputable and definitive. They have always been in controversy over developing aspects of mathematics, and they have always considered their own age to be in a period of crisis.

Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data, brought together in the full light of demonstration, and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.

Mathematics is a language

Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.