Mathematical Quotes

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.

We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.