Mathematics Quotes

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.

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

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

All of mathematics can be deduced from the sole notion of an integer; here we have a fact universally acknowledged today.

Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.

Mathematics exists solely for the honour of the human mind.

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

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

[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

Mathematics is an art of human understanding.

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.

Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.

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

The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only printed by machines; they are written by machines.

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we will probably never be able to repay.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.

I never use a computer.

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

Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.

Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

I believe that great success is possible in any field — from music to mathematics to macro trading.

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

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.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.