Mathematics Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • God
  • Language
  • Mathematics

• The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

  

  William Godwin
  • Logic
  • Subtlety
  • Sounder

• 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 branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its appropriate mathematics. In every form of material manifestation, there is a corresponding form of human thought, so that the human mind is as wide in its range of thought as the physical universe in which it thinks.

  

  Benjamin Peirce
  • Universe
  • Manifestation
  • Sciences

• You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Complicated
  • Counting
  • Chemist

• The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share the complete lack of empirical content which is associated with that certainty: The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

  

  Carl Gustav Hempel
  • Information
  • Share
  • Certainty

• Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

  

  Arnold Sommerfeld
  • Mathematics
  • Younger
  • Diseases

• Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

  

  Shakuntala Devi
  • Science
  • Numbers
  • Mathematics

• The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Life
  • Student
  • Affairs

• In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Jazz
  • Blues
  • Harmonies

• The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Help
  • Mathematics
  • Laws of Nature

• Mathematics is an art of human understanding.

  

  William Thurston
  • Understanding
  • Mathematics

• Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.

  

  Serge Lang
  • Mathematics
  • Rubbish

• Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

  

  Edward Kasner
  • Mathematics
  • Paradox

• I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

  

  George Eliot
  • Brain
  • Mathematics
  • Dose

• [All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which Newton discovered with the aid of the calculus, is to have a sufficient number of observations and a mathematics that is complex enough.

  

  Marquis de Condorcet
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Enough

• Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite logical step after the reals, namely the introduction of infinitesimals, has simply been omitted. I think, in coming centuries it will be considered a great oddity in the history of mathematics that the first exact theory of infinitesimals was developed 300 years after the invention of the differential calculus.

  

  Abraham Robinson
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • History

• But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reality
  • Thought
  • Principle

• Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.

  

  L. E. J. Brouwer
  • Thinking
  • Mathematics

• I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Interest
  • Ability
  • Calculus

• Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Mathematics
  • Fundamental
  • Investigations

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