Mathematics Quotes - Page 10

The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.

Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.

The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character.

Every dimension is special.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it.

A proof only becomes a proof after the social act of "accepting it as a proof".

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

[Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images, the numbers, but things of thought to which there could correspond effective objects or relations, even though such a correspondence is not necessary.

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

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

Physics without mathematics is meaningless.

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

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

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

My interests started about in science and in mathematics, I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.