Mathematics Quotes
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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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I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.
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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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The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards.
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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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Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.
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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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Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.
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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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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 unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.
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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, a bigger point is that it is perfectly OK if something is unclear. That’s how I feel 90 percent of the time when I do mathematics, so welcome to my world! The feeling of confusion (even frustration, sometimes) is an essential part of being a mathematician. But look at the bright side: how boring would life be if everything in it could be understood with little effort! What makes doing mathematics so exciting is our desire to overcome this confusion; to understand; to lift the veil on the unknown. And the feeling of personal triumph when we do understand something makes it all worthwhile.
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The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.
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The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it to vanish from being. Mathematical propositions, if true, are eternal verities.
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God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
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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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Logic has virtually nothing to do with the way we think.
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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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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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The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.
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Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all the rest of mathematics. In one respect this last point is accurate.
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I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.
