Mathematical Quotes - Page 2

Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

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.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.

The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

The infinitely competent can be uncreative.

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

God ever arithmetizes.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from external affairs. Some practice it as if using a drug.

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.

We never know what we are talking about.

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.