Mathematics Quotes
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Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.
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When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of the movement of the world-machine established in our behalf by the best and most systematic builder of all, existed among the philosophers who had studied so exactly in other respects the minutest details in regard to the sphere.
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Numbers are the most certain things we have.
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What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?
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The sky is where mathematics and magic become one.
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I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.
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The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.
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How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is no appeal. We cannot change the rules of the game, we cannot ascertain whether the game is fair. We can only study the player at his game; not, however, with the detached attitude of a bystander, for we are watching our own minds at play.
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Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.
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Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.
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I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.
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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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Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands.
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Mathematics is not a spectator sport!
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[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.
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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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Mathematics is as old as Man.
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In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.
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I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.
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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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Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
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Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
