Math Quotes - Page 8

• The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Teacher, Moving, Science

  "The Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton". Book by Robert Perceval Graves, Volume 3, p. 219, 1889.

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• Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.

  Henry John Stephen Smith

  Use, May, Pure

  Quoted in Alexander Macfarlane, Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century (1916). "Pure mathematics; may it never be of use to any man!" is cited as the toast of the Mathematical Society of England in Science, 10 Dec. 1886.

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• Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

  Morris Kline

  Ignorance, Statistics, Theory

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• There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

  Nikolai Lobachevsky

  Real, Science, World

  "The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane". Book by George Edward Martin, 1975.

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• Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

  Martin Luther

  Medicine, People, Sin

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  There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Funny, Witty, Truth

  Attributed to Disraeli by Mark Twain in his 'Autobiography' (1924) vol. 1, p. 246

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• Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.

  George Polya

  Education, Effort, Seeing The Truth

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• An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation.

  Howard Gardner

  Skills, Individual, Domain

  Howard Gardner (1999). “The Disciplined Mind: What All Students Should Understand”

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• Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.

  Thomas Huxley

  Stuff, Degrees, May

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

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• A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

  Paul Erdos

  Witty, Humorous, Coffee

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• Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

  Henri Poincare

  Art, Science, Names

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.622, Modern Library

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• God created everything by number, weight and measure.

  Isaac Newton

  Numbers, Weight

  "Symmetry in Plants" by Roger V. Jean, p. xxxvii, 1998.

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• Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number or you haven't. You get the feeling that the result you have discovered is forever, because it's concrete. Other branches of mathematics are not so clear-cut. Functional analysis of infinite-dimensional spaces is never fully convincing; you don't get a feeling of having done an honest day's work. Don't get the wrong idea - combinatorics is not just putting balls into boxes. Counting finite sets can be a highbrow undertaking, with sophisticated techniques.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Cutting, Ideas, Numbers

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• Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

  Lord Kelvin

  Numbers, Metaphysics, Mathematics

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• Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Music, Science, Mind

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• Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

  Peter Marshall

  Love, Motivational, Family

  Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”

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• The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

  Richard Hamming

  Learning, Numbers, Statistics

  "Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers". Book by Richard Hamming, 1962.

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• The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

  Euclid

  God, Nature, Thinking

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• Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

  Roger Bacon

  Keys, Gates, Mathematics

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• But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

  Marston Morse

  Art, Science, Genius

  Marston Morse, Raoul Bott (1981). “Selected papers”, Springer Verlag

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• There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.

  Danica McKellar

  Workout, Brain, Stereotype

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• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  Carl Sandburg

  Nice, Blue, Sky

  Carl Sandburg, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1995). “Carl Sandburg”, p.17, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

  Izaak Walton

  Learning, Fishing, Trout

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) 'Epistle to the Reader'

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• God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

  Andre Weil

  Devil, Existence, Consistent

  "Mathematical Circles Adieu: A Fourth Collection of Mathematical Stories and Anecdotes". Book by Howard Whitley Eves, 1977.

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• Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

  John von Neumann

  Science, Men, Used

  Quoted in Gary Zukav, The DancingWu Li Masters (1979)

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