Top Mathematics Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Mathematics quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Henri Poincare
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.
- Henri Poincare
Collection: Mathematics
Image of David Chalmers
My interests started about in science and in mathematics, I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.
- David Chalmers
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Paul Gordan
This is not mathematics; this is theology.
- Paul Gordan
Collection: Mathematics
Image of IU?. I. Manin
A proof only becomes a proof after the social act of "accepting it as a proof".
- IU?. I. Manin
Collection: Mathematics
Image of L Peter Deutsch
Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.
- L Peter Deutsch
Collection: Mathematics
Image of John Maynard Smith
Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.
- John Maynard Smith
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Joseph-Louis Lagrange
If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Gian-Carlo Rota
Nature imitates mathematics.
- Gian-Carlo Rota
Collection: Mathematics
Image of John Allen Paulos
Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."
- John Allen Paulos
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Jean Dieudonne
We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.
- Jean Dieudonne
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Anaxagoras
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.
- Anaxagoras
Collection: Mathematics
Image of John Edensor Littlewood
A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.
- John Edensor Littlewood
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Hendrik Lenstra
The main application of Pure Mathematics is to make you happy.
- Hendrik Lenstra
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Emil Artin
It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out.
- Emil Artin
Collection: Mathematics
Image of William Mace
Ask not what's inside your head but what your head's inside of.
- William Mace
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Doron Zeilberger
Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.
- Doron Zeilberger
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Jim Propp
MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more respectable.
- Jim Propp
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Edward Frenkel
Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.
- Edward Frenkel
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Vladimir Arnold
Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.
- Vladimir Arnold
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Alan Watts
... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.
- Alan Watts
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Vanna Bonta
Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.
- Vanna Bonta
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Andy Rooney
I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.
- Andy Rooney
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Carl Sagan
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
- Carl Sagan
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Ludwig Wittgenstein
A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Ludwig Wittgenstein
All mathematics is tautology.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Gustave Flaubert
Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.
- Gustave Flaubert
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Carl Friedrich Gauss
In mathematics there are no true controversies.
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Russell Hoban
More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.
- Russell Hoban
Collection: Mathematics
Image of Lord Kelvin
Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.
- Lord Kelvin
Collection: Mathematics