There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who cannot.
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
We never know what we are talking about.
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.
Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
A painting is more than the sum of its parts
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.
The world is more than the sum of its suffering.
I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed.
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