Mathematics Quotes

• If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Mathematics

• If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • World
  • Game
  • Understanding

• In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Great
  • High
  • Economy

• If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number" nor "size", but always form. And among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.

  

  Alexander Grothendieck
  • Faces
  • Mathematics
  • Fascinate

• Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we ask where mathematics works best, it is in areas like particle physics and astrophysics, areas of fundamental science that are very, very far removed from everyday affairs.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Mind
  • Everyday
  • Lying

• The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

  

  Aristotle
  • Things
  • Principles
  • Subject

• Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Written
  • Mathematics
  • Great Book

• The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Science
  • Mathematics

• You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Want
  • Add
  • Rhyme

• I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Failed
  • Calculus
  • Mastered

• I was a mathematics major and really into math.

  

  Mary Callahan Erdoes
  • Really
  • Math
  • Major

• Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Mind
  • Sky
  • Mathematics

• As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • History
  • Achievement
  • Mathematics

• The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Example

• Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Up
  • Long
  • Age

• There would be this algebraic equation with an equals sign in the middle, and all the components would have different letters of the alphabet. It would come out right with x+z^2+t/q=y+co, and the co would be clothes off!

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Different
  • Science
  • Clothes

• There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not, and scorn their unfounded judgment.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Judgment
  • Hypothesis
  • Babbler

• 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.

  

  Maimonides
  • Study
  • Logic
  • Perfection

• Mathematics is realm altogether, one that is cold, hard, objective, necessary, clear and thus utterly non-human. Nonetheless, it is enormously useful as a means, to "turn the soul around from becoming to being."

  

  David Roochnik
  • Mathematics
  • Becoming
  • Nonetheless

• Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Great
  • Science
  • Forever

• I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • School
  • Proud
  • Period

• There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

  

  Archimedes
  • Mathematics
  • Incredible
  • Studied

• Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have no more to do with mathematics than the notes on a page of music. They simply represent the experience.

  

  Keith Devlin
  • Alive
  • Math
  • Performances

• The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps.

  

  Alexander Grothendieck
  • Introduction
  • Childish
  • Cipher

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