Mathematics Quotes

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

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

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.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

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.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.