Mathematics Quotes - Page 14

From nothing I have created another entirely new world.

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

Inspiration is constantly in the air. It's up to us to develop the sensitivity to pick up on it.

The main application of Pure Mathematics is to make you happy.

We can... treat only the geometrical aspects of mathematics and shall be satisfied in having shown that there is no problem of the truth of geometrical axioms and that no special geometrical visualization exists in mathematics.

Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as flawed as those of anyone else.

Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

Mathematics are one of the fundamentaries of educationalizing our youth.

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards.

As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.

The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics.

The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.

I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.

Mathematics is really an art, not a science. You could say science also is an art. So I would say the difference is something you can't really describe - you can only recognize. You hear somebody playing the violin, and it was Fritz Kreisler or it was somebody else, and you can tell the difference. It is so in almost every art. We just don't understand why it is that there are just a few people who are just completely off the scale and the rest of them are just mediocre. And we don't know why. But I say it's certainly true of mathematics.

Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something more than logic, he believed, makes mathematics what it is.

The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.

Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.

Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.

Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.

My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.