Best 90 quotes in «mathematical quotes» category

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.

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

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

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

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

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

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

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

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

Numbers rule the universe.

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

The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.

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 infinitely competent can be uncreative.

The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero.

The explorer is the person who is lost.

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

The more you know, the less sure you are.

The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.

The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.

There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.

There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business.

This is not what I thought physics was about when I started out: I learned that the idea is to explain nature in terms of clearly understood mathematical laws; but perhaps comparisons are the best we can hope for.

There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character.

We have never pushed it far enough to know, but we decided 47 percent was the right percentage. You can quote us on that. It's very mathematical.

When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Algebraic to the limit!

Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A precision job. Scrooby’s job at the Time Saving Agency was a tough one. Billions of lives depended on him not screwing up. Literally billions and billions. Once, he’d screwed up in only a very small way and people wore those little yellow smiley faces on t-shirts for decades afterwards – and that was just a small screw up. He sighed. Here he sat, in the branches of an apple tree in an apple tree orchard – and without a single apple in sight. Below him, Isaac was waiting to get bonked on the noggin with an apple so that he could fulfill history by toddling off to invent gravity and shape scientific and mathematical principles for generations to come. Only one problem – no apples.

We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life.

In the life of mathematics two plus two makes four; but in the mathematics of life two and two can make five or even three sometimes