Mathematics Quotes

In a Sense, we all are Time Travelers! We are Surviving each and every Active Time-Point in this Timeline.......

~ Aldrin Mathew

The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians have never decided whether they should feel excited or upset by such events.

~ Gian-Carlo Rota

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

~ René Descartes

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

This is the team. We're trying to go to the moon. If you can't put someone up, please don't put them down.

~ Nasa

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.

~ Farkas Bolyai

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

~ Michael Crichton

Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.

~ George Pólya

Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly—yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of natural mathematical ability on which he assigned himself a 25 and Littlewood a 30. To David Hilbert, the most eminent mathematician of the day, he assigned an 80. To Ramanujan he gave 100.

~ Robert Kanigel

We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.

~ Roger Penrose

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

~ William Thomson

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

~ Immanuel Kant

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

~ Bill Gaede

A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.

~ Bill Gaede

In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But in order to speak about social reality, you must have the proper credentials, particularly if you depart from the accepted framework of thinking. Generally speaking, it seems fair to say that the richer the intellectual substance of a field, the less there is a concern for credentials, and the greater is concern for content.

~ Noam Chomsky

If you formulate your question properly, mathematics gives you the answer

~ Savas Dimopoulos

If our 14 billion year cosmic history were scaled to 1 year, then 100,000 years of human history would be 4 minutes, and a 100 year life would be 0.2 seconds.

~ Max Tegmark

If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser.

~ Euclid

The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood.

~ K. Martin Beckner

Scientists and inventors of the USA (especially in the so-called blue state that voted overwhelmingly against Trump) have to think long and hard whether they want to continue research that will help their government remain the world's superpower. All the scientists who worked in and for Germany in the 1930s lived to regret that they directly helped a sociopath like Hitler harm millions of people. Let us not repeat the same mistakes over and over again.

~ Piero Scaruffi

I don't believe any scientific field to be superior to another.

~ Abhijit Naskar

With mathematics we stand precisely at that intersection of bondage and freedom that is the essence of the human itself.

~ Hermann Weyl

Two wrongs never add up to a right. But it's okay, I always sucked at maths.

~ Everskeptic

When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's a matter of morality.Republicans have posed the deepest moral question of any society: whether we're all in it together. Their answer is we're not.President Obama should proclaim, loudly and clearly, we are.

~ Robert B. Reich

Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.

~ Marcel Achard

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

~ Paul Lockhart

Golden Ratio is a powerful mathematical constant woven into the very fabric of biology. It is the unique visual tension between comforting symmetry and compelling asymmetry, and its thoughtful application can bring beauty and harmony and intrigue to all manner of designed things.

~ Darrin Crescenzi

This world is of a single piece; yet, we invent nets to trap it for our inspection. Then we mistake our nets for the reality of the piece. In these nets we catch the fishes of the intellect but the sea of wholeness forever eludes our grasp. So, we forget our original intent and then mistake the nets for the sea.Three of these nets we have named Nature, Mathematics, and Art. We conclude they are different because we call them by different names. Thus, they are apt to remain forever separated with nothing bonding them together. It is not the nets that are at fault but rather our misunderstanding of their function as nets. They do catch the fishes but never the sea, and it is the sea that we ultimately desire.

~ Martha Boles

... those who seek the lost Lord will find traces of His being and beauty in all that men have made, from music and poetry and sculpture to the gingerbread men in the pâtisseries, from the final calculation of the pure mathematician to the first delighted chalk drawing of a small child.

~ Caryll Houselander

If there is anything like a unifying aesthetic principle in mathematics, it is this: simple is beautiful. Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

~ Paul Lockhart

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

~ G.h. Hardy

... That little narrative is an example of the mathematician’s art: asking simple and elegant questions about our imaginary creations, and crafting satisfying and beautiful explanations. There is really nothing else quite like this realm of pure idea; it’s fascinating, it’s fun, and it’s free!

~ Paul Lockhart

Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.

~ Louis Zukofsky

What is important is to deeply understand things and their relations to each other. This is where intelligence lies. The fact of being quick or slow isn’t really relevant.

~ Laurent Schwartz

To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic.

~ Amit Kalantri

The Planeswalker knowYOu take the card from the libraryAnd bury it when you're done.On the path, you face history.Walk the path, do the math:Start with the prime numbers under 100Whose digits give you 10.Choose the happy median.Add it to: The square root of The cube of five divided byThe sum of 3 and 2.

~ Megan Frazer Blakemore

Most people would have probably lost count around seven. This was, Harry knewfrom his extensive reading on logic and arithmetic, the largest number that most peoplecould visually appreciate. Put seven dots on a page, and most people can take a quickglance and declare, “Seven.” Switch to eight, and the majority of humanity was lost.

~ Julia Quinn

While ritual, emotion and reasoning are all significant aspects of human nature, the most nearly unique human characteristic is the ability to associate abstractly and to reason. Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species; and the most characteristically human activities are mathematics, science, technology, music and the arts--a somewhat broader range of subjects than is usually included under the humanities. Indeed, in its common usage this very word seems to reflect a peculiar narrowness of vision about what is human. Mathematics is as much a humanity as poetry.

~ Carl Sagan

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

~ Núria Añó