Simone Weil Quotes About Mathematics

Quotes about: Mathematics

• Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data, brought together in the full light of demonstration, and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.

  Simone Weil

  Data, Limits, Mathematics

  "The Notebooks of Simone Weil".

• Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

  Simone Weil

  Money, Math, Firsts

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.209, U of Nebraska Press

• Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Circles

  Simone Weil (2002). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.286, Psychology Press

• School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek." They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.

  Simone Weil

  Prayer, Children, School

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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