Mathematics Quotes
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Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.
Archimedes -
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Galileo Galilei
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
H. L. Mencken -
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.
Patrick M. Byrne -
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
G. H. Hardy -
'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
E. T. Bell -
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
Immanuel Kant -
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
Gabriel Marcel
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
G. H. Hardy -
If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.
Richard Feynman -
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
Carl Friedrich Gauss -
I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
Samantha Bond -
The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.
Socrates
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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
Felix Klein -
Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.
Shakuntala Devi -
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
Edsger Dijkstra -
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
Felix Klein -
No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.
Albert Camus
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
G. H. Hardy -
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
Ada Lovelace -
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
Gabriel Marcel