Mathematics Quotes

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

Integers are the fountainhead of all mathematics.

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

It may be more important in the mathematics class how you teach than what you teach.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.

Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be felt with the soul.

I will live a hope-filled life every day. I will handle my problems as opportunities in a different, more effective manner, based on the power of advanced mathematics; "You + God = Enough

It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful.

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.

While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

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

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns.

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

Success is the result of hard work.

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants.

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.

Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

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

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing... Oh my God! Ooh... Wow... You can see colors through music. Anything!

Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.

Mathematics is not a spectator sport!

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

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.