Mathematical Quotes - Page 14

• How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

  Albert Einstein

  Independent, Science, Reality

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.249, Running Press

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• I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

  G. H. Hardy

  Art, Creativity, Creative

  G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.

  Richard Hamming

  Sports, Interesting, Intellectual

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• Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.

  Leonard Adleman

  Philosophy, Math, Science

  "SCIENTIST AT WORK: Leonard Adleman; Hitting the High Spots Of Computer Theory" by Gina Kolata, www.nytimes.com. 1994.

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• Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

  Danica McKellar

  Mean, Math, Science

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• Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

  Thomas Hobbes

  God, Mankind, Geometry

  'Leviathan' (1651) pt. 1, ch. 4

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• I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Thinking, Trying

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.4, Princeton University Press

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• Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Night, Thinking

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• I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

  Charles Babbage

  Math, Wish, Statistics

  Charles Babbage (2013). “On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Motivation, Ideas, Progress

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.142, Open Road Media

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• The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.

  Johannes Kepler

  Math, Order, World

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• I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Math, Animal, Vegetables

  'The Pirates of Penzance' (1879) act 1

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• The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Eye, Math

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• Men pass away, but their deeds abide. [His last words.]

  Augustin-Louis Cauchy

  Men, Passing Away, Deeds

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• There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who cannot.

  George Carlin

  Mathematical Logic, People, Three

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• All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven.

  Thomas Browne

  Math, Order, Cities

  'The Garden of Cyrus' (1658) ch. 5

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• About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

  Albert Einstein

  Book, Effort, Letters

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• A good calculator does not need artificial aids.

  Laozi

  Math, Doe, Needs

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• The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I do not myself think the danger is serious; either a reasonable amount of concentration leads to new ideas or methods of obvious interest, or else one just leaves the problem alone. "Perfect numbers" certainly never did any good, but then they never did any particular harm.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Math, Thinking, Numbers

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Math, Men, Mad

  Thomas Hobbes (1845). ““The” English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.445

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• Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

  W. H. Auden

  Math, Tests, Answers

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.219, DEBOLS!LLO

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• Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Fall, Math, Errors

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• I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Work, Littles, Interest

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

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• Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear.

  Edmund Landau

  Women, Said, Mathematician

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• We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there need be no things that correspond to it, even approximately.

  Albert Einstein

  Distance, Math, Thinking

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