Mathematical Quotes - Page 4

The explorer is the person who is lost.

The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.

The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero.

If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don’t know if I would be the algorithm. I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.

It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out.

Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear.

Die mathematische Forschung besteht aus 10% Intuition und 90% Arbeit.

One nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical concepts, a number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself. In other words, the given time of arrival is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the party will arrive.

Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale.

…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.

Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

A mathematical equation stands forever.

I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.

The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.

It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.

MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more respectable.