Mathematics Quotes - Page 12

One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war, number mysticism, astrology, and religion. In some instances, writers, hoping to assert for mathematics a noble parentage and a pure scientific experience, have turned away their eyes. Histories have been eager to put the case for science, but the Handmaiden of the Sciences has lived a far more raffish and interesting life than her historians allow.

Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.

My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.

When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.

Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.

Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.

Ask not what's inside your head but what your head's inside of.

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.

The student is best taught who is told the least

Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

This is not mathematics; this is theology.

I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny.

Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.

Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must.

The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.

Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.