Mathematics Quotes - Page 7

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Projective geometry is all geometry.

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the universe.

The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

Without mathematics there is no art.

To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of examples and the purpose of proving theorems is to classify and explain the examples.

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

All of mathematics is a tale about groups.

Nature imitates mathematics.

The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists.

A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.