Quotes About Mathematics

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.