Best 90 quotes in «mathematical quotes» category

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

God ever arithmetizes.

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.

Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.

I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

I believe there are 15, 747, 724, 136, 275, 002, 577, 605, 653, 961, 181, 555, 468, 044, 717, 914, 527, 116, 709, 366, 231, 425, 076, 185, 631, 031, 296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.

If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don't know if I would be the algorithm. I've always been OK with that. I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside.

If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

I feign no hypotheses.

If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.

In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science can only be satisfactorily treated on an explicitly mathematical basis.

In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from external affairs. Some practice it as if using a drug.

In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.

MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more respectable.

Mathematical Analysis is as extensive as nature herself.

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 yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

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

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know.

Numbers rule the universe.

Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

The extraction tax is based in part on production times the market value at the wellhead, so any downturn in the market price is going to be a mathematical impact on the shale tax. But beyond that, it also concerns me because it also impacts the health of the industry.

The explorer is the person who is lost.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.