Quotes About Mathematics

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Finally it is, by the way, obvious that if mathematics can arrogate to itself the privilege of the nobility because of its universal and necessary reliability, then even human reason itself would be inferior to the unfailing and infallible instinct of insects.

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

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.

Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

The first man to understand the extraordinary magical power of applying mathematical calculation to things in nature was an Italian called Galileo Galilei.

Absolute certainty is no more attainable in metaphysics than it is in any other field of rational inquiry and it is unfair to criticize metaphysics for failing to deliver what no other discipline - not even mathematics - is expected to deliver.

It's not an exclamation point. There are no interjections in mathematics.

You may discover an easier way of counting, but for most people the subtraction-by-two method works just fine. If you just have to be different, here

The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.

In the century of Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Pascal, and Newton," one historian wrote, "the most versatile genius of all was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

They believed in angles and alchemy and the devil, and they believed that the universe followed precise, mathematical laws.

Newton had been the first to learn how to pin down the mysterious infinitesimals that held the key to explaining motion.

The human mind has never invented a labor-saving machine equal to algebra.

There was a young man from Trinity, Who solved the square root of infinity. While counting the digits, He was seized by the fidgets, Dropped science, and took up divinity.

Trigonometry is a sine of the times.

There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't.

In the binary system we count on our fists instead of on our fingers.

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Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.

Encourage public schools to teach American children how to code just after they learn to multiply.

For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.