Mathematics Quotes and Quotation
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- "A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there." --Charles Darwin
- "A topologist is one who doesn't know the difference between a doughnut and a coffee cup." --John Kelley
- "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." --Albert Einstein
- "As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school." --Cokie Roberts
- "Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater." --Albert Einstein
- "From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician." --Sir James Jeans
- "God does arithmetic." --Karl Friedrich Gauss
- "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically." --Albert Einstein
- "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts." -- for support rather than illumination." --Andrew Lang
- "He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god." --Plato
- "How dare we speak of the laws of chance? Is not chance the antithesis of all law?" --Bertrand Russell
- "I admit that mathematical science is a good thing. But excessive devotion to it is a bad thing." --Aldous Huxley
- "I don't believe in mathematics." --Albert Einstein
- "I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning." --Plato
- "I have no faith in political arithmetic." --Adam Smith
- "If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment." --Ernest Rutherford
- "Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics." --Simeon Poisson
- "Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning." --John Locke
- "Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way." --George Polye
- "Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper." --David Hilbert
- "[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence." --William Wordsworth
- "Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state." --Plato
- "Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself." --Abraham Kaplan
- "Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things." --Jules Henri Poincare
- "Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way." --Max Dehn
- "Mathematics is the science of what is clear by itself." --Carl Jacobi
- "Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense." --Charles Darwin
- "Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform." --Bertrand Russell
- "Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so." --Galileo Galilei
- "Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful." --Martin Luther
- "No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically." --Leonardo da Vinci
- "Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important... The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?" --Helen Keller
- "Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare." --Rene Descartes
- "Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone." --Henry John Stephen Smith
- "Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated." --M. C. Reed
- "Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore." --Albert Einstein
- "Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance." --Morris Kline
- "The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality." --David Hilbert
- "The imaginary number is a fine and wonderful recourse of the divine spirit, almost an amphibian between being and not being." --Gottfried Whilhem Liebniz
- "The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man." --David Hilbert
- "The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal." --Plato
- "The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought." --Havelock Ellis
- "The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience." --Emmanuel Kant
- "The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with facts for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life." --Ernest Renan
- "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." --Benajamin Disraeli
- "There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world." --Nikolai Lobatchevsky
- "You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy." --Max Rosenlicht
- "I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate." --David Mumford
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