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  • God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

    "The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics As The Language Of Nature". Book by Heinz Pagels, p. 295, 1982.
  • Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.

    Believe   Math   Order  
    "Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics". Book by George F. Simmons, 1992.
  • I was x years old in the year x2.

    Education   Math   Years  
  • If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

    Believe   Math   Simple  
    John von Neumann's remarks as keynote speaker at the first national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery (1947) as quoted in "Archaeology of computers: Reminiscences, 1945-1947" by Franz L. Alt, Communications of the ACM, Volume 15, Issue 7, special issue: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery (p. 694), July 1972.
  • The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

    Passion   Math   Unions  
    William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.356, Harvard University Press
  • The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

    A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)
  • Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

    George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”
  • Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

    Beauty   Math   Apology  
    A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)
  • It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

    Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”
  • Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

    Math   Science   Errors  
    "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.
  • There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

    Real   Math   Science  
    "The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane". Book by George Edward Martin, 1975.
  • A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

    Education   Math   Unique  
    G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.84, Cambridge University Press
  • Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

    Math   Men   Numbers  
  • Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

    Math   Simple   Games  
  • Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."

  • How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.

  • 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.

    Science   Doe   Needs  
    "Speaking of Science: Notable Quotes on Science, Engineering, and the Environment" by Jon Fripp, Michael Fripp, Deborah Fripp, Newnes (p. 45), 2000.
  • Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

    "Linear Associative Algebra" (1870)
  • Where there is matter, there is geometry.

    Math   Science   Matter  
  • The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

    Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.318, Modern Library
  • Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

    Isaac Barrow (1734). “The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge”, p.28
  • God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

    Math   Devil   Existence  
    "Mathematical Circles Adieu: A Fourth Collection of Mathematical Stories and Anecdotes". Book by Howard Whitley Eves, 1977.
  • Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

    Funny   Humorous   Math  
  • Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

    Math   Ideas   Use  
    Edward Kasner, James Newman (2013). “Mathematics and the Imagination”, p.4, Courier Corporation
  • Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

    Real   Math   Neutrons  
  • A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

    Quoted in John D Barrow Pie in the Sky, Counting, Thinking and Being (1992).
  • [Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

  • It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

    Math   Science   Would Be  
  • Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

    Plato   Math   Amusing  
  • Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

    Lying   Science   Math  
    Orthodoxy ch. 2 (1908)
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