Mathematics Quotes
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All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.
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I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.
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It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
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The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take account of the psychic processes in the boy in order to grip his interest, and he will succeed only if he presents things in a form intuitively comprehensible. A more abstract presentation is only possible in the upper classes.
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
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Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.
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Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
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I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.
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The creative principle of science resides in mathematics.
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Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.
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Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
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The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation.... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.
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Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true.
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Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear.
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For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.
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I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.
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It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come to be so closely entwined. Opinions vary on the answer. ..Bertrand Russell acknowledged..'Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little.' ..Mathematics may be indispensable to physics, but it obviously does not constitute physics.
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If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.
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And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.
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I was a mathematics major and really into math.
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Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.
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The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.
