Mathematics Quotes - Page 34

• I think, therefore I laugh.

  John Allen Paulos

  Education, Knowledge, Math

  John Allen Paulos (2007). “Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up”, p.2, Hill and Wang

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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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• For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.

  Bertrand Russell

  Teacher, Math, Subtlety

  "The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell".

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• Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

  Simone Weil

  Money, Math, Firsts

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.209, U of Nebraska Press

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• In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Nature, Math, Science

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• There is no nature at an instant.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Math, Instant

  Alfred North Whitehead (2013). “The Concept of Nature”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

  Stephen Hawking

  People, Understanding, Use

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• Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Music, Math, Scent

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• I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

  Robert Frost

  Education, Teacher

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• Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

  Shakuntala Devi

  Children, Dread, Approach

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• Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

  Shakuntala Devi

  Math, Science, Numbers

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• The main application of Pure Mathematics is to make you happy.

  Hendrik Lenstra

  Make You Happy, Application, Pure

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• . . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

  Henri Poincare

  Math, Mind, World

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• These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led me to fancy that everything that can fall under human knowledge forms a similar sequence; and that so long as we avoid accepting as true what is not so, and always preserve the right order of deduction of one thing from another, there can be nothing too remote to be reached in the end, or to well hidden to be discovered.

  Rene Descartes

  Fall, Mean, Math

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• At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But we know what we do not know in an immeasurably richer way than we did. And learning this has been a remarkable achievement-among the greatest and least-known of the modern era.

  David Berlinski

  Science, Achievement, Way

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Science, Views

  Alfred North Whitehead (1929). “The Aims of Education & Other Essays”

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• Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and surprises. Unfortunately there is never a lack of mathematicians for the job of transforming delectable ingredients into a dish that tastes like a damp blanket.

  James R Newman

  Jobs, Adventure, Math

  James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.2414, Рипол Классик

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• We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it will embrace, outside of (in addition to) the general and elementary curriculum, all branches of the classical high school, which are necessary for a true Christian and scientific education, such as: Religion, the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, French and English languages; History, Geography, Mathematics, Physics, natural history, Introduction to Philosophy, Music, and Drawing.

  C. F. W. Walther

  Christian, Philosophy, Latin

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• Football is not played on paper, it is played on a pitch. This game is not mathematics and in football, two plus two very rarely equals four - it's usually three or five.

  Leo Beenhakker

  Football, Games, Two

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• Fourier is a mathematical poem.

  Lord Kelvin

  Math, Poetry, Fourier

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• War can protect; it cannot create.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  War, Math, Protect

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may it never come) will be the mathematicians' war.

  Philip J. Davis

  War, Math, World

  Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto (1995). “The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition”, p.104, Springer Science & Business Media

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• If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.

  Rene Descartes

  War, Math, Battle

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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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