Beauty In Mathematics Quotes

#1. Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.

George Polya

#2. If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.

Paul A.M. Dirac

#3. Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

Martin Gardner

#4. Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry ... Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.

J. Ruth Gendler

#5. There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural sciences.

Robert Watson-Watt

#6. Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

Bertrand Russell

#7. The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.

Paul Krugman

#8. Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

Deepak Chopra

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

Maria Mitchell

#10. It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

Bertrand Russell

#11. Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

Marston Morse

#12. I only know that when I study mathematics, I transport myself to another world, a world of exquisite beauty and truth. And in that world I am the person I like to be.

Dora Musielak

#13. At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

Mos Def

#14. To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.

Richard Feynman

#15. It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.

Robert L. Devaney

#16. Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth.

Amit Ray

#17. From now on whenever I read a math book, I'm going to try to figure out by myself how everything was done, before looking at the solution. Even if I don't figure it out, I think I'll be able to see the beauty of a proof then.

Donald E. Knuth

#18. The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

G.H. Hardy

#19. Mathematics is not a separate entity. It owes a great deal of its power and its beauty to other disciplines.

Mark Kac