Mathematics Quotes

Mathematics Quote of the day

You can only be twice someone’s age once.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.

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

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.

Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism is generally studied only by advanced students of physics, but Albert had mastered it by the time he was sixteen years old.

And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but ever possible world, must conform.

I guess a sock is also a geometric shape—technically—but I don't know what you'd call it. A socktagon?

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

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.

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face it's like architecture or mathematics.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

If the institution of mathematics told a story . . . how would it end?

What is important is to deeply understand things and their relations to each other. This is where intelligence lies. The fact of being quick or slow isn’t really relevant.

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.

To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

For the first time in his life, he decided to focus on his math homework.

Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it.

Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual.

It is the story that matters not just the ending.

Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately it also brought mortis.

Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

If you formulate your question properly, mathematics gives you the answer

This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.