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

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

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.

Mathematics is the science of patterns.

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

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.

Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.

Mathematics is the language of size.

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.

Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet.

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.

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.