Mathematical Equations Quotes

• In order to solve this differential equation you look at it until a solution occurs to you.

  George Polya

  Math, Order, Looks

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• The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Education, Math

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• It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

  Paul Dirac

  Views, Progress, Sound

  "The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature" by Paul Dirac, blogs.scientificamerican.com. June 25, 2010.

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  Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Nature, Reality

  "Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World". Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July 1934.

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

  Euclid

  God, Nature, Math

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• If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Truth, Science, Discovery

  "The World of Mathematics". Book by J. R. Newman, 1956.

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• The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

  Stephen Hawking

  Abstract, Solve, Universe

  "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fuzzy, Substitutes, Mathematical

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Balance, Looks, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Essays”, p.73, 1st World Publishing

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• It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

  Paul Dirac

  Important, Fit, Mathematical Beauty

  "Magic numbers: can maths equations be beautiful?" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2016.

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• A mathematical equation stands forever.

  Albert Einstein

  Forever, Mathematical, Equations

  "Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists". Book by Robert Jungk (p. 249), 1958.

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• One nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical concepts, a number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself. In other words, the given time of arrival is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the party will arrive.

  Douglas Adams

  Party, Numbers, Impossible

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.427, Del Rey

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• It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. If there is not complete agreement between the results of one's work and experiment, one should not allow oneself to be too discouraged, because the discrepancy may well be due to minor features that are not properly taken into account and that will get cleared up with further developments of the theory.

  Paul Dirac

  Taken, Science, Views

  "The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature". Article republished from May 1963 issue of Scientific American, blogs.scientificamerican.com. June 25, 2010.

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• I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Character, Mean, Ignorant

  "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "Philosophy ". Chapter 2: "The Pretence of Knowledge", pp. 27-28, 1978.

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• The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.

  Paul Dirac

  Lying, Science, Law

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• I think it is a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations which maybe don't have any physical meaning at all. Sometimes they do.
  At age 60.

  Paul Dirac

  Beautiful, Science, Thinking

  "Interview with Dr. P. A. M. Dirac" by Thomas S. Kuhn at Dirac's home, Cambridge, England, May 7, 1963.

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• Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

  Carl Sagan

  Writing, Long, Trying

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• …Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.

  Dan Brown

  Sunset, Self Worth, Wavelength

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of a kind that physicists use and trying to fit them together in an interesting way, regardless of any application that the work may have. It is simply a search for pretty mathematics. It may turn out later to have an application. Then one has good luck. At age 78.

  Paul Dirac

  Good Luck, Science, Interesting

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• It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence worked out as one works out a mathematical equation. The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as the rulers of us all.

  Louis Thomas McFadden

  Work Out, Historical, Despair

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• Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Panic, Firsts, Conspiracy

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• The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?

  Stephen Wolfram

  Science, Years, Understanding

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• Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Wisdom, Math

  "Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists" by Robert Jungk, (p. 249), 1958.

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• Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

  Seth Klarman

  Investment Success, Computer, Program

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• It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Technique, Algorithms, Pages

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