Mathematical Quotes

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

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.

It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

Wherever there is number, there is beauty.

A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.

There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who cannot.

The more you know, the less sure you are.

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.

A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of a kind that physicists use and trying to fit them together in an interesting way, regardless of any application that the work may have. It is simply a search for pretty mathematics. It may turn out later to have an application. Then one has good luck. At age 78.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!

Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

Numbers rule the universe.

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

Je serais reconnaissant a toute personne ayant compris cette demonstration de me l'expliquer.

A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence worked out as one works out a mathematical equation. The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as the rulers of us all.

The world is more than the sum of its suffering.