Quotes of Mathematics - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ 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

“ Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. ”

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

“ I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea. ”

- Frank Wilczek

“ In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. ”

- Johann von Neumann

“ I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. ”

- Plato

“ Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. ”

- Sir Arthur Eddington

“ The mathematics is not there till we put it there. ”

- Sir Arthur Eddington

“ We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'. ”

- Sir Arthur Eddington

“ If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. ”

- Vannevar Bush

“ 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

“ Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. ”

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

“ Love is a spendthrift, leaves its arithmetic at home, is always in the red. ”

- Paul Scherer

“ May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason? ”

- James Joseph Sylvester

“ Well, I was always… I used to get 100% in physics and chemistry and mathematics and that was in high school. ”

- James Doohan

“ In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. ”

- Johann von Neumann

“ The mathematics is not there till we put it there. ”

- Ecclesiastes

“ 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

“ Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. ”

- Nikola Tesla

“ Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. ”

- Izaak Walton

“ 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 Nietzsche

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

- Francis Bacon

“ For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. ”

- Roger Bacon

“ One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. ”

- Philip J. Davis

“ The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuosi and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics. ”

- Kenneth Miller

“ The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. ”

- Aristotle
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