Mathematics Quotes

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

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

Mathematics is the music of reason.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.