Thematic Quotes

To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work-that is, correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area.

The total subject of mathematics is clearly too broad for any of us. I do not think that any mathematician since Gauss has covered it uniformly and fully; even Hilbert did not and all of us are of considerably lesser width quite apart from the question of depth than Hilbert.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

A line is length without breadth.

In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.

One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.

It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

Wherever there is number, there is beauty.