Mathematics Quotes
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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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Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.
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I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.
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Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.
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Its very nature, scientific investigation takes for granted such assumptions as that: there is a physical world existing independently of our minds; this world is characterized by various objective patterns and regularities; our senses are at least partially reliable sources of information about this world; there are objective laws of logic and mathematics that apply to the objective world outside our minds;
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Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
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Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
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Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing... Oh my God! Ooh... Wow... You can see colors through music. Anything!
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Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be felt with the soul.
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Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that tomorrow he would dream that he found it again. That is how mathematics is created; it has its fatal flaw.
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Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."
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There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?
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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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Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.
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There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.
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The beauty of string theory is that it is all about mathematics. For that, you don't need resources or labs. Just sit in your room and do the maths.
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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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Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naivete of the mathematician himself.
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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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I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.
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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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We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.
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Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.
