Mathematics Quotes - Page 20

• Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

  Bertrand Russell

  Math, Western Philosophy, Mathematical Beauty

  "The Study of Mathematics" (1902)

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• How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

  David Hilbert

  Time, Real, Math

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• Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.

  Paul Erdos

  Math, Problem, Ready

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• A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

  G. H. Hardy

  Math, Patterns, Original Ideas

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• Mathematics is not a spectator sport!

  George Polya

  Sports, Math, Spectators

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• Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man, void of all Uncertainty; and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their Subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration.

  Christopher Wren

  Men, Mind, Foundation

  James ELMES, Sir Christopher Wren (1852). “Sir Christopher Wren and his times. With illustrative sketches and anecdotes of the most distinguished personages in the seventeenth century”, p.100

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• In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

  Charles Babbage

  Race, Long, Hopeless

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).”, p.8

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• Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Education, Math, Thinking

  "The Devil's Dictionary". Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1911.

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• We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.

  Brian Greene

  Science, Two, Might

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• Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

  Brian Greene

  Science, Answers, Sometimes

  Brian Greene (2011). “The Elegant Universe”, p.365, Random House

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• Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

  Hypatia

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophy

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• I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

  Edith Wharton

  Education, Men, Interesting

  "The Fruit of the Tree".

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• One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Education, Teaching, Math

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “My Memoirs (1802 to 1833)”, p.1444, Library of Alexandria

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• I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.

  Alain Badiou

  Party, Discipline, Political

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• Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Tools, Logic, Language

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

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• Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

  Michael Crichton

  Demand, Faces, Implications

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wisdom, Joy, Foundation

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 26, 2011

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• For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.

  Milan Kundera

  Degrees, Doe, Coincidence

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• Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

  Archimedes

  Secret, Pure Love, Approach

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• Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Math, Men

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• ... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics. I am sorry, but this seems to be the case.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Sorry, Science, Law

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• When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself. Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Worry, Three

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• Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

  Albert Einstein

  Distance, Believe, Lines

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• There are no creeds in mathematics.

  Peter Drucker

  Science, Creeds

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• Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Trying, Lucky

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.264, Faber & Faber

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