Quotes About Mathematics

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

You know, When does a girl asks you for a selfie ?When she got the solution to the biggest mathematical equation of this Society.

When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians, she said: "You got what to wear?".

my mother is a good mathematicianshe was able to divide 3 eggsinto 8 mouths equally every day

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

Film is one if three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.