Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
Nikola Tesla
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell
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.
Bertrand Russell
It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
Albert Einstein
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Henry David Thoreau
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Johann von Neumann
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Sir Arthur Eddington
I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.
Frank Wilczek
The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, created world; third when the mind grasps it in abstracto as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type.
Georg Cantor
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
Sir Arthur Eddington
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
Charles Caleb Colton
The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
Sir Arthur Eddington
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts.
Ivars Peterson
What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite (which one could also call the supra-finite), that is an unbounded ascending lader of definite modes, which by their nature are not finite but infinite, but which just like the finite can be determined by well-defined and distinguishable numbers.
Georg Cantor
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
Eric Temple Bell
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
Galileo Galilei
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
Stephen Hawking
Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.
Alfred North Whitehead
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.
Albert Einstein
These will be computer related courses taught by departments in the College, not by computer science. So an example of that kind of course would be a digital music course or a certain mathematics course.
Thomas Horton
The next chapter is likely to provoke many mathematicians. This can't be helped. Mathematics is not what they think it is.
David Deutsch
Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
Felix Klein
In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.
Georg Cantor
One of the reasons we have a facility like this is we're trying to spark the interest of science and mathematics in children.
Lorraine Pace
The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
Georg Cantor
A lot of thinking, mathematics and talk.
Charles Townes
Let's not escape into mathematics. Let's stay with reality.
Michael Crichton
The mathematics faculty were encouraging me to shift into mathematics as my major and explaining to me that it was not almost impossible to make a good career in America as a mathematician. So I... became officially a student of mathematics. And in the end I had learned and progressed so much in mathematics that they gave me an M.S. in addition to my B.S. when I graduated.
John Nash
If Steve is back at point guard, that's four point guards. I'm not trying to make decisions for anybody, but the mathematics of that just don't add up.
Jameer Nelson
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.
Frank Capra
Real mathematics is rhetorical in nature.
Marsha Watson
I think being a mathematics guy, he?s always trying to figure something out, and how to solve it. I think that?s the challenge for him.
Dee Jozwiak
You certainly like to see more African-Americans out there working in mathematics. I'm certainly happy to have the honor. It's nice to know your work is taken seriously.
William Massey
It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.
Henry Ellis
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.
Jelly Roll Morton
An orderly universe is one described by mathematics.
Commander Majwalter Bradley
We found a way to give players a variety of games. The games are the same, the mathematics are the same, and the objects of the games are the same. But there is just a little variation.
Lee Skelley
What this brought forward is a new emphasis on mathematics, on teaching mathematics. The textbook is not that important.
Fred Tidstrom
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Maria Montessori
The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
John Mclaughlin
God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
Paul Dirac
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
Georg Cantor
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
Izaak Walton
The mathematics clearly demonstrate that we are still capable of winning both world championships, but of course it's going to be somewhat challenging.
Ron Dennis
Mathematics is the music of reason.
James Joseph Sylvester
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
David Hilbert
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.
James Newman
At first I had no idea at all of the possibility of systematically building up my figures. I did not know ... this was possible for someone untrained in mathematics.
M.c. Escher
I think that we're now inescapably in an age where the large statements of mathematics are so complex that we may never know for sure whether they're true or false.
Keith Devlin
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.
Eugene Wigner
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