Vladimir Nabokov Quotes About Mathematics

Quotes about: Mathematics

• 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.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dream, Reality, Men

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1979). “Five novels”

• Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Stars, Reality, Flying

• 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.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Men, Numbers, Games

  Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (1963). “The gift”

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