Mathematics Quotes
78 Mathematics quotes:
"Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore."
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"Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true"
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"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science."
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"The more I study physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics."
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"I don't believe in mathematics."
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"Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose."
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"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."
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"By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction."
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"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."
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"But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain."
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"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"
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"To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain; to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality."
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"The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal"
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"Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform."
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"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."
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"I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow."
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"Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."
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"In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds."
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"Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?"
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"The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics"
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