Math Quotes - Page 7

All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

You burros have calculus in your blood.

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical sciences, which proceed very cautiously and admit nothing as established until it has been rigorously demonstrated.

I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics.

I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the universal organ for world understanding through theoretical construction. Mathematics must therefore remain an essential element of the knowledge and abilities which we have to teach, of the culture we have to transmit, to the next generation.

[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

The more you know, the less sure you are.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.