Quotes on Mathematics

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

Author: Charles Babbage

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

Author: E. Bell

"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

Author: E. Bell

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

Author: John Carver

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

Author: Edsger Dijkstra

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Author: Arthur Eddington

To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.

Author: Leonhard Euler

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

Author: G. Hardy

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

Author: Charles Hermite

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

Author: David Hilbert

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

Author: William Joyce

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

Author: Stephen Kleene

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

Author: Felix Klein

An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.

Author: Lawrence Klein

I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

Author: Walter Kohn

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

Author: John Nash, Jr.

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

Author: Simon Newcomb

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.

Author: James Newman

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.

Author: James Newman

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

Author: James Rainwater

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

Author: Bertrand Russell

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Author: Bertrand Russell

What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

Author: James Sanborn

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.

Author: Nikola Tesla

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.

Author: Don Vliet

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Author: Izaak Walton

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

Author: Hermann Weyl

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.

Author: Andrew Wiles

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

Author: Andrew Wiles

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

Author: Andrew Wiles

A coincidence is a tiny miracle where two parallel lines intersect.

Author: Samantha Roberts

In the equation of life, love is the X-factor that makes everything come together.

Author: Olivia Parker

In the world of mathematics, every problem has an infinite number of solutions waiting to be discovered by the curious mind.

Author: Eleanor Fox

Sipping a cup of coffee solves anything, even math equations.

Author: Beth Cooper