Quotes About Mathematics

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

I knew a mathematician who said 'I do not know as much as God. But I know as much as God knew at my age'.

God ever geometrizes.

God forever geometrizes.

Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

God is a geometrician.

We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.

God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.

Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.

Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.

I see the beauty of God's archetypal infinity reflected in the towers of infinities in set theory

The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we will probably never be able to repay.

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

It is given to us to live for the most part under the guidance of mathematics ... It is impossible to distinguish from other living creatures anyone who does not understand how to quantify.

If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.

If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn.

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).