Mathematics Quotes - Page 3

• With me, everything turns into mathematics.

  Rene Descartes

  Math, Mathematical, Turns

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• A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Math, Feelings, Intelligence

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• Mathematics is a language

  J. Willard Gibbs

  Math, Statistics, Language

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• Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

  Helen Keller

  Life, Knowledge, Math

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.146, Om Books International

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• Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

  G. H. Hardy

  Math, Names, People

  G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

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• Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful.
  If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful.
  If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.

  Paul Erdos

  Beautiful, Education, Math

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• Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.

  Max Dehn

  Math, Way, Materials

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• Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.

  Michael C. Reed

  Sex, Math, Observation

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• I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.

  George Polya

  Philosophy, Math, Not Good Enough

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• The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.

  Laozi

  Two, Numbers, Three

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.63, Chinese University Press

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• Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

  Martin Gardner

  Real, Math, Neutrons

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• Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

  Carl Sandburg

  Math, Numbers, Pigeons

  Carl Sandburg, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1995). “Carl Sandburg”, p.17, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

  Charles Hermite

  Masters, Servant, Masters And Servants

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• Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Mean, Math

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.626, Psychology Press

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• Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.

  Gil Kalai

  Pairs, Counting, Tricks

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• The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. To be sure, his art originated in the necessity for clothing such creatures, but this was long ago; to this day a shape will occasionally appear which will fit into the garment as if the garment had been made for it. Then there is no end of surprise and delight.

  George Dantzig

  Art, Math, Science

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• Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Math, Principles, Lovers

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• I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Learning, Science, Discovery

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• Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

  John Locke

  Math, Proof, Diamond

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• When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

  Lord Kelvin

  Math, Science, Numbers

  Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).

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• I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

  Paul Erdos

  Beautiful, Math, Numbers

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• If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Math, Men

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1821). “A critique of Bacon's "Novum Organum," by Basil Montagu, extracted from the Retrospective Review, 1821. Few MS. notes”, p.285

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• Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

  Rene Descartes

  Math, Men, Numbers

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• Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

  Galileo Galilei

  Math, Statistics, Metrics

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• Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

  Donald Knuth

  Art, Math, Science

  Foreword to the book "A=B" by Marko Petkovsek, Herbert S. Wilf and Doron Zeilberger, 1996.

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