Quotes About Mathematics

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

Actually, she liked math. She loved knowing that if she worked hard enough, at the end there was going to be an answer that made sense.

I have this math teacher, Mr. Allen. He said that when you're a point, all you see is the point. When you're a line, all you see is the line and the point. When you're in three dimensions, you see three dimensions and lines and points. Just because we can't see a fourth dimension doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It just means we haven't reached it yet.

If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living,—then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.

And to close on, the Dept of Small Consolations. Some troubledome just figured out that if you allow for every codder and shiggy and appleofmyeye a space one foot by two you could stand us all on the six hundred forty square mile surface of the island of Zanzibar. ToDAY third MAY twenty-TEN come aGAIN!

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

Algebra is my favorite subject...because you can replace my X without asking me Y.

M.A.T.H = Mental Abuse to Humans.

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

log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

I was x years old in the year x2.

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

When you have a lot of money, there's so many places you can go to manage your money. But when you don't have money, mathematically you actually need a financial plan more. You can't really afford to make mistakes. So why is this such a luxury product?

Once, probably, I used to think that vagueness was a loftier kind of poetry, truer to the depths of consciousness, and maybe when I started to read mathematics and science back in the mid-70s I found an unexpected lyricism in the necessarily precise language that scientists tend to use My instinct, my superstition is that the closer I see a thing and the more accurately I describe it, the better my chances of arriving at a certain sensuality of expression.