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It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of the mathematics of his epoch, i.e. the period of time when he is 50.

It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

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

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.

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.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.