Math Quotes - Page 18

Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths.

A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

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.

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

I believe that great success is possible in any field — from music to mathematics to macro trading.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although the lay public considers mathematical equations to be rather opaque, to a scientist an equation is very much like a movement in a larger symphony. Simplicity. Elegance. These are the qualities that have inspired some of the greatest artists to create their masterpieces, and they are precisely the same qualities that motivate scientists to search for the laws of nature. LIke a work of art or a haunting poem, equations have a beauty and rhythm all their own.

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

The solution "cost me study that robbed me of rest for an entire night."

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.