Math Quotes - Page 4

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones we can't even begin to think about in any very definite way. Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions.

Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

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. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.