Mathematics Quotes - Page 14

• Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.

  L. E. J. Brouwer

  Thinking

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• Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

  Stendhal

  Math, Hypocrisy, Vagueness

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• Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

  Deepak Chopra

  Math, Balance And Harmony, Mind

  Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow (2011). “War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not”, p.42, Harmony

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• One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem,above all other sciences,is
  that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable,while those of all
  other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being
  overthrown by newly discovered facts.

  Albert Einstein

  Law, Special, Facts

  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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• Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

  Frank Capra

  Music, Math, Two

  Frank Capra (1971). “The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography”

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• If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.

  Alfred Renyi

  Happiness, Math, Unhappy

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• The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Excellence, Exaltation

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.229, Routledge

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• A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Cat, Science

  Quoted in John D Barrow Pie in the Sky, Counting, Thinking and Being (1992).

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• So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

  Jonathan Swift

  Fleas, Ems, Insects

  On Poetry" l. 337 (1733)

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• Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Computer, Theory

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist”

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• Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fake People, Math, Talking

  "Mathematics and Metaphysicians" (1901)

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

  Henry John Stephen Smith

  Math, Use, May

  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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• Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

  Bertrand Russell

  Humility, Math, Science

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “An Outline of Philosophy”, p.171, Routledge

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• A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Relation, Miscellany, Collections

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• The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

  John G. Kemeny

  Math, Science, Men

  John G. Kemeny (1964). “Random Essays on Mathematics, Education, and Computers”

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.

  Paul Halmos

  Education, Jobs, Math

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• I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.

  Malcolm X

  Sorry, Mistake, Math

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.39, Ballantine Books

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• Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  G. H. Hardy

  Beauty, Math, Apology

  A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)

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• Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

  Joseph Fourier

  Math, Science, Secret

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• Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

  Plato

  Plato, Math, Amusing

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• Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Queens, Math, Arithmetic

  "Gauss zum Gedächtniss". Book by Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, 1856.

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• In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

  Hermann Hankel

  Math, Add, Generations

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• Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

  Lord Kelvin

  Math, Numbers, Metaphysics

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• Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

  G. H. Hardy

  Love, Sacrifice, Math

  G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.94, Cambridge University Press

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