Mathematics Quotes

When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet.

~ Ron Eglash

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

~ Marcus Du Sautoy

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

~ Stephen Hawking

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

~ Andrew Wiles

I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college.

~ Henry Petroski

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

~ Marcus Du Sautoy

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

~ Paul Dirac

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

~ Andre Weil

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.

~ John Forbes Nash

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

~ Richard M. Nixon

I'd like to be able to design as easily as if I was using Photoshop. I'd like to be able to create a multicolumn layout and control source order without having to do advanced mathematics or hire Eric Meyer or Dan Cederholm to figure out the CSS, because I can't.

~ Jeffrey Zeldman

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.

~ Roger Penrose

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

~ G. H. Hardy

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

~ Marston Morse

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

~ Georg Cantor

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

~ David Hilbert

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

~ G. H. Hardy

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

~ E. T. Bell

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

~ Francis Bacon

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

~ Galileo Galilei

I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.

~ Shakuntala Devi

I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.

~ Danica Mckellar

I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.

~ Danica Mckellar

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

~ Tahar Ben Jelloun

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

~ 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

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

~ Robert Morgan

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

~ Georg Cantor

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.

~ E. T. Bell