Mathematics Quotes

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

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

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

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

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

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

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.