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Quotes About Mathematics

No hay espacio para la imaginación en la geometría.
~ L.M. Montgomery
The period tells us the mass, of course
~ Larry Niven
You may have to go with English," Bailey says. "Einstein said, So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality." Bailey tilts her head. "Still waiting on the English there, Professor," she says. "It basically means, we don't know shit about anything," he says.
~ Laura Dave
Einstein said, So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality." Bailey tilts her head. "Still waiting on the English there, Professor," she says. "It basically means, we don't know shit about anything," he says.
~ Laura Dave
Precalculus was taught in dog whistle, a pitch too high to hear.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing... Oh my God! Ooh... Wow... You can see colors through music. Anything!
~ Nina Simone
An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.
~ Srinivasa Ramanujan
No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.
~ Srinivasa Ramanujan
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
~ Galileo Galilei
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
~ John von Neumann
I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.
~ Paul Dirac
Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.
~ George Polya
The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.
~ James Clerk Maxwell
In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.
~ Euclid
It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
~ Richard Dawkins
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.
~ Eugene Wigner
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
~ Albert Einstein
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
~ Galileo Galilei
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
~ Albert A. Bartlett
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
~ Daniel Bernoulli
Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.
~ Leonard Adleman
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
~ John Arbuthnot
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.
~ Aristotle
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.
~ James Jeans