Mathematics Quotes - Page 6

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.

I feign no hypotheses.

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.

To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.

... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.

My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

Without mathematics, we are blind.

It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.

In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of the mathematics of his epoch, i.e. the period of time when he is 50.

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.

How is error possible in mathematics?

If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction.

What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not.

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.