Mathematics Quotes - Page 4

Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn.

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.

The heart of mathematics is its problems.

But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our technology would have been impossible. Should we say therefore that calculus is bad?

There are no creeds in mathematics.

All mathematics is tautology.

Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

The infinitely competent can be uncreative.

Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case.

If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.

When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science.

Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.

I would rather be right than rigorous.

You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.