Mathematics Quotes - Page 8

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.

Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.

So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

In Mathematics it is always best to cheat.

Randomness is the true foundation of mathematics.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

In mathematics there are no true controversies.

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.

I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.

We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the best of all possible mathematics will be created out of physicists' attempts to describe nature.

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.

Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data, brought together in the full light of demonstration, and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.