Best 579 quotes in «mathematics quotes» category

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

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

Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.

In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'

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

I never use a computer.

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

In Mathematics it is always best to cheat.

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 there are no true controversies.

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.

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

Inspiration is constantly in the air. It's up to us to develop the sensitivity to pick up on it.

Integers are the fountainhead of all mathematics.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.

I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.