Mathematics Quotes - Page 2

• 

  God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

  Paul Dirac

  Beautiful, God, Creating

  "The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics As The Language Of Nature". Book by Heinz Pagels, p. 295, 1982.

  77 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

  John Arbuthnot

  Knowledge, Math, Science

  John Arbuthnot (1701). “An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning,: In a Letter from a Gentleman in the City to His Friend in Oxford..”, p.7

  48 Copy quote

  Show source

• God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, God, Math

  "Quest: An Autobiography". Book by Leopold Infeld (p. 279), 1980.

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.

  Paul Halmos

  Way, Worst, Teach

  57 Copy quote

• An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

  Andrew Lang

  Funny, Humorous, Men

  51 Copy quote

• I feign no hypotheses.

  Isaac Newton

  Math, Hypothesis, Mathematical

  Isaac Newton (2004). “Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.25, Cambridge University Press

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

  Charles Darwin

  Math, Seems, Mathematical

  11 Copy quote

• Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

  Albert Einstein

  Teaching, Math, Science

  "Obituary for Emmy Noether". Letter to the Editor of The New York Times, www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. May 5, 1935.

  66 Copy quote

  Show source

• Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

  Lewis Carroll

  Wisdom, Mathematical Logic, Ghouls

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)

  48 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

  Felix Klein

  Confused, Math, Numbers

  19 Copy quote

• We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

  Maria Montessori

  Beauty, Science, Imagination

  "Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals". Book by Maria Mitchell, p. 186, 1896.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Contradiction, Contradicting

  "Bare Facts and Naked Truths: A New Correspondence Theory of Truth". Book by George Englebretsen (p. 153), 2006.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

  Ernest Renan

  Life, Education, Teaching

  12 Copy quote

• The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

  William James

  Passion, Math, Unions

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.356, Harvard University Press

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Triumph, Modern

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.46, 谷月社

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.

  George Polya

  Wise, Knowledge, Science

  6 Copy quote

• For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Science, History

  Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.107, Lulu.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is.

  Alfred Adler

  Friendship, Book, Science

  10 Copy quote

• Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

  Carl Pomerance

  Fun, Math, Science

  26 Copy quote

• One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.

  Heinrich Hertz

  Independent, Math, Feelings

  110 Copy quote

• Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Teaching, Math, Intellectual

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

  Felix Klein

  Math, Sensual, Intuition

  19 Copy quote

• There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

  Archimedes

  Math, Men, Incredibles

  124 Copy quote

• The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

  David Hilbert

  Math, Men, Spirit

  "Über das Unendliche" ["On the Infinite"] (1925) address to der Westfälischen Mathematischen Gesellschaft in honour to the memory of Karl Weierstrass, as quoted in "Number The Language of Science" by Tobias Dantzig, 1930.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof.

  David Hilbert

  Believe, Math, Errors

  17 Copy quote