Best 579 quotes in «mathematics quotes» category

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not.

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our technology would have been impossible. Should we say therefore that calculus is bad?

Examples ... which might be multiplied ad libitum, show how difficult it often is for an experimenter to interpret his results without the aid of mathematics.

Every dimension is special.

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

Everything tries to be round.

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

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

From nothing I have created another entirely new world.

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

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.

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.

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

How is error possible in mathematics?

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

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

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

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

I feign no hypotheses.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

I never use a computer.

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

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