Mathematics Quotes
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We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.
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My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.
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We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.
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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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Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.
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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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In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.
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Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
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Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
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Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.
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Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear.
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The creative principle of science resides in mathematics.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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.
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In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for first-graders'. One can be both a strong advocate of first-graders and wine-tasting, but strongly opposed to wine-tasting for first-graders.
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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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The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.
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Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naivete of the mathematician himself.
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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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But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.
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... we should not be disappointed that everyday language does not work any longer at the apex of our little theory. It is natural; like poetry, the very reason for the existence of mathematics is that it expresses thoughts and feelings which we cannot express in mundane everyday language.
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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.
