Best 90 quotes in «mathematical quotes» category

Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

The explorer is the person who is lost.

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.

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.

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

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

The more you know, the less sure you are.

The infinitely competent can be uncreative.

The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero.

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

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

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

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

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.

There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business.

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

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

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

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.

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'.

Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.

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.

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.

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.

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

Algebraic to the limit!

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.

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.

The importance of C.F. Gauss for the development of modern physical theory and especially for the mathematical fundament of the theory of relativity is overwhelming indeed; also his achievement of the system of absolute measurement in the field of electromagnetism. In my opinion it is impossible to achieve a coherent objective picture of the world on the basis of concepts which are taken more or less from inner psychological experience.

Yes," I continued, "I discovered this model recently and her style never fails to be mathematically perfect. She seems to come by it naturally. As if she were born resonant. I notice Japanese models tend to do this. Like I said, they seem to have resonance somewhere deep in their culture. But Yuri Nakagawa, she's the best I've ever seen. The best model, with the most powerful resonance. I need her to probe deeper into this profound mathematical instinct, which I call resonance.

A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war, number mysticism, astrology, and religion. In some instances, writers, hoping to assert for mathematics a noble parentage and a pure scientific experience, have turned away their eyes. Histories have been eager to put the case for science, but the Handmaiden of the Sciences has lived a far more raffish and interesting life than her historians allow.

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.

All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.

A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear.

Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?

Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.

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

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

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

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