Mathematics Quotes - Page 5

If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.

You are the mountain and the valley.

A mathematics teacher is a midwife to ideas.

There is no problem that cannot be solved.

God ever arithmetizes.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation).

In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from external affairs. Some practice it as if using a drug.

All science requires mathematics.

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

The aim of mathematics is to explain as much as possible in simple terms.

Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.

Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."

Mathematics is the music of reason.

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."

I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.

Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.