Quotes
Quotes about Mathematics
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty of nature. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625.
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.
The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge.
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors. Everybody a mathematician?
To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Revolutions never occur in mathematics.
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.
Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.
With me everything turns into mathematics. [Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
