Mathematics Quotes - Page 9

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

Them as counts counts moren them as dont count

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.

... combinatorics, a sort of glorified dice-throwing.

Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books.

Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question.

Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

The computer is important, but not to mathematics.

A beautiful problem is no joke!

Mathematics is the science of patterns.

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes.

Mathematics is the language of size.

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.

Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs.

I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.

The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.

André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil.

In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.