Mathematical Quotes - Page 3

Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

Mathematical Analysis is as extensive as nature herself.

Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.

How is error possible in mathematics?

There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.

The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

Projective geometry is all geometry.

Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare.

Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.

I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any mathematical proposition, while the other asserts that his existence is not demonstrable to the intellect.

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.