Top 100 Mathematics Is Quotes
#1. As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.
Simon Newcomb
#3. Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.
Edward Kasner
#5. One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.
Philip J. Davis
#6. Human logic [emphasis added] was forced on us by the physical world and is therefore consistent with it. Mathematics derives from logic. This is why mathematics is consistent with the physical world.
Jef Raskin
#7. I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.
Immanuel Kant
#8. Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
Stefan Banach
#9. The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.
Paul Halmos
#10. At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But we know what we do not know in an immeasurably richer way than we did. And learning this has been a remarkable achievement-among the greatest and least-known of the modern era.
David Berlinski
#11. The truth shall set you free. When you hear the truth, it sets you free. So mathematics is truth. It adds up. There's no error. Only time there's an error is when man miscalculates his own problems or his own equations.
RZA
#12. The heart of mathematics is its problems.
Paul Halmos
#13. Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand ... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.
G.H. Hardy
#14. Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.
Paul Dirac
#15. Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.
Robert Musil
#16. Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.
Paul Erdos
#17. Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.
Jean Dieudonne
#18. Best thing about mathematics is that it teach us to love the problem.
Vitthal Jadhav
#19. Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#20. The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.
Ronald Graham
#21. Mathematics is natural. Love is natural. It only makes sense that it's mathematically quantifiable.
Ally Blake
#22. Creating a body of mathematics is about intellectual labor, not some kind of transcendental revelation. There are plenty of important components of European fractal geometry that are missing from the African version.
Ron Eglash
#23. Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes.
Lipman Bers
#24. Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#25. Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute zero temperature or to get perfect vacuum. Luckily, mathematics is a fairyland where ideal and fictional objects are possible.
Doron Zeilberger
#26. Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe
Galileo Galilei
#27. Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by which he means what WE call mathematics. Likewise, I think, for the sciences.
Ian Hacking
#28. Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.
Meir Shalev
#30. Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as flawed as those of anyone else.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#31. Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
Robert A. Heinlein
#32. Formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy
your mathematics is.
Leslie Lamport
#33. He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#34. Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one universal science and the one whose four ground-rules are taught us almost in infancy and reappear in the motions to the universe.
Henry John Stephen Smith
#35. We tend to teach mathematics as a long list of rules.You learn them in order and you have to obey them, because if you don't obey them you get a C-.This is not mathematics. Mathematics is the study if things that come out a certain way because there is no other way they could possibly be.
Jordan Ellenberg
#36. My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In my late 20s I wrote several 11-line poems because I wanted to create poems that couldn't be uniformly divided into couplets, tercets, or quatrains, 11 being a prime number.
James Arthur
#37. The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.
Marcus Du Sautoy
#38. To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.
Leonhard Euler
#39. If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
John Von Neumann
#40. The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.
Norbert Wiener
#41. To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.
Hilda Phoebe Hudson
#42. Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that tomorrow he would dream that he found it again. That is how mathematics is created; it has its fatal flaw.
Vladimir Nabokov
#43. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.
Ivars Peterson
#45. All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.
Brian Greene
#46. God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
Andre Weil
#47. Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.
John Maynard Smith
#48. Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
Rene Descartes
#49. The idea here, of course, is, you know, mathematics is the language of science, it's the way that we understand the natural world. And there's definitely been a push to sort of study advanced math and kind of reawaken the love of advanced math.
Anya Kamenetz
#53. [Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images, the numbers, but things of thought to which there could correspond effective objects or relations, even though such a correspondence is not necessary.
Hermann Hankel
#54. Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure
Paul Lockhart
#55. Mathematics ... is a bit like discovering oil ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.
Andrew Wiles
#56. The best mathematics is serious as well as beautiful - 'important' if you like, but the word is very ambiguous, and 'serious' expresses what I mean much better
G.H. Hardy
#57. On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to the real world. To students, mathematics appears to deal almost entirely with things whlch are of no concern at all to man.
Morris Kline
#58. Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
#59. As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.
James Joseph Sylvester
#60. All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic submarines) and celestial mechanics (financed by military and other institutions dealing with missiles, such as NASA).
Vladimir Arnold
#61. It is in the world of things and places, times and troubles and turbid
processes, that mathematics is not so much applied as illustrated.
David Berlinski
#62. It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn't work at all.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#64. The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.
John Edensor Littlewood
#65. Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.
Dirk Jan Struik
#66. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
Richard Feynman
#67. Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.
Richard Hamming
#68. The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult
problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were
impossible.
Freeman Dyson
#69. Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt to draw absolute conclusions. All mathematical truths are relative, conditional. In E. T. Bell Men of Mathematics, New York: Simona and Schuster, 1937.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
#70. Doing research in mathematics is frustrating and if being frustrated is something you cannot get used to, then mathematics may not be an ideal occupation for you.
Peter Sarnak
#71. Mathematics is often defined as the science of space and number ... it was not until the recent resonance of computers and mathematics that a more apt definition became fully evident: mathematics is the science of patterns.
Lynn Steen
#72. What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns ... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of patterns appropriate to their own lives through which they can see variety, regularity, and interconnections.
Lynn Steen
#74. The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.
James Newman
#75. Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for description and analysis of the experiential world.
Hyman Bass
#76. Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.
Arnold Sommerfeld
#77. Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.
Ian Stewart
#78. Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
#79. Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.
William Thurston
#80. Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case.
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
#81. Mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem
a great poem
is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few words. In this sense formulas like
or are poems.
Lipman Bers
#82. Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.
L. E. J. Brouwer
#83. The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that spreads understanding and breathes life into ideas both old and new.
William Thurston
#84. Mathematics is the extension of common sense by other means.
Jordan Ellenberg
#85. Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.
Leonard Adleman
#86. Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
Galileo Galilei
#87. The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.
G.H. Hardy
#88. Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us to obtain amazing new insights into the way in which nature operates.
Melvin Schwartz
#90. Besides language and music mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.
Hermann Weyl
#91. Mathematics is filled with such instances where it is important to regard one set as a subset of another.
Richard Hammack
#92. Philosophically, mathematics is not a part of science. Mathematics studies patterns, science studies nature
Lynn Steen
#93. Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.
John Maynard Smith
#94. You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of all-all this orderliness, and at the heart, impossibility. Contradiction. Heaven built on the foundations of hell.
David Leavitt
#95. The essence of mathematics is in its freedom.
Georg Cantor
#96. I do not know if God is a mathematician, but mathematics is the loom upon which God weaves the fabric of the universe....The fact that reality can be described or approximated by simple mathematical expressions suggests to me that nature has mathematics at its core.
Clifford A. Pickover
#97. The total subject of mathematics is clearly too broad for any of us. I do not think that any mathematician since Gauss has covered it uniformly and fully; even Hilbert did not and all of us are of considerably lesser width quite apart from the question of depth than Hilbert.
John Von Neumann
#98. Mathematics is the poetry of logic and the music of reason.
Albert Einstein
#99. Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we ask where mathematics works best, it is in areas like particle physics and astrophysics, areas of fundamental science that are very, very far removed from everyday affairs.
Paul Davies
#100. Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures ... let that be our motto.
Arthur Mattuck
