Math Quotes - Page 11

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.

Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.

Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

I don't believe in natural science.

I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

Integers are the fountainhead of all mathematics.

An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

The development of mathematics towards greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can prove any theorem using nothing but a few mechanical rules.

The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete, our language in the future will change to a saner language where we have no argument in it, 'can there be such a language?' there is, when engineers talk to each other, it's not subject to interpretation, they use math, they use descriptive systems, if I interpreted what another engineer said in the way I think he meant it: you couldn't build bridges, dams, power transmission lines. The language has to have meaning

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.

The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.

Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.