Quotes
Quotes about Mathematics
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater.
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.
I don't believe in mathematics.
The three-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.
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.
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
