Mathematics Sayings & Quotes
These mathematics sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.If you help others, you will be helped. Perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in a hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics. - Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. - Maria Mitchell
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. - Galileo Galilei
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon. - Roger Bacon
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. - Nicolai Ivanovitch Lobachevsky
One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts. - Albert Einstein
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. - Bertrand Russell
But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed. - Albert Einstein
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. - Johann von Neumann
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - Ulysses Simpson Grant
I don't believe in mathematics. - Albert Einstein
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. - Carl Ally
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. - Bertrand Russell
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe, because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. - Bertrand Russell
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Sir Francis Bacon
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
Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. - Joseph Conrad
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty, a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. - Bertrand Russell
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things? - Albert Einstein
Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose. - Albert Einstein
In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale. - Samuel Butler
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. - Bertrand Russell
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The mathematics is not there till we put it there. - Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. - Carl Friedrich Gauss