Mathematical Quotes

Nature is written in mathematical language.

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.

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

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

Je serais reconnaissant a toute personne ayant compris cette demonstration de me l'expliquer.

The world is more than the sum of its suffering.

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

Numbers rule the universe.

Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

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

The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations which dominates mathematical physics.

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that women's sphere is the family circle is a mathematical absurdity.

The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.

Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

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.

Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

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

The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

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

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

The infinitely competent can be uncreative.

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

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know

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

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

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.