Mathematics Quotations | Page 4

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.

In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books.

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.

We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems, because every theorem that's proved is trivial.

This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

Them as counts counts moren them as dont count

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.

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

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

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

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

Mathematics possesses not only truth, but also supreme beauty

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

I don't believe in mathematics.

Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain; to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

The more I study physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.

I feign no hypotheses.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

How could youths better learn to live than by once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would educate their minds as much as mathematics

Nature is written in mathematical language.

To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

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.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

There are no creeds in mathematics.

Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people ...

Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

The desire for excitement is very deep-seated in human beings, eI was a solitary, shy, priggish youth. I had no experience of the social pleasures of boyhood and did not miss them. But I liked mathematics, and mathematics was suspect because it has n

Success is the result of hard work.

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

There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.

The mathematics of high achievement

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

I would rather be right than rigorous.

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.