Mathematics Quotes
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The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.
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Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
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The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations with itself.
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Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.
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Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.
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Logic has virtually nothing to do with the way we think.
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What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge of imagination-of imagination which broke the roadway through the forest in order that cold logic might follow.
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Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.
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There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
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The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.
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I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field.
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Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.
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In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.
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At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.
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Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions, and on account of some passage in Scripture, badly distorted to their purpose, will dare to censure and assail what I have presented here.
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Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.
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The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.
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In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only in the last twenty years or so that a definition of mathematics emerged on which most mathematicians agree: mathematics is the science of patterns.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
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God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
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A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war, number mysticism, astrology, and religion. In some instances, writers, hoping to assert for mathematics a noble parentage and a pure scientific experience, have turned away their eyes. Histories have been eager to put the case for science, but the Handmaiden of the Sciences has lived a far more raffish and interesting life than her historians allow.
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The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.
