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  • Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.

    Math   Numbers   Delight  
    Virgil (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virgil (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics
  • The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

    Math   Spirit   Madness  
    Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
  • Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.

    God   Work   Math  
  • Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

    Humility   Math   Science  
    Bertrand Russell (2009). “An Outline of Philosophy”, p.171, Routledge
  • Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

    An Introduction to Mathematics ch. 5 (1911)
  • 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 tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings, and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to senses tried by the present day kaleidoscope of events.

    Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.470, Oxford University Press
  • Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

    Math   Two   Giving  
  • To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.

  • Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

    Math   Ideas   Vivid  
    Ivars Peterson (1998). “The Mathematical Tourist: New and Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics”, p.6, Macmillan
  • Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

    Math   Numbers   Giving  
  • He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

  • If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

    Funny   Witty   Revenge  
    Laurence J. Peter (1979). “Peter's people”, W. Morrow
  • Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

    Math   World   Fantasy  
    "Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology".
  • Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

    Music   Math   Science  
  • If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

    Math   Men   Littles  
    Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1821). “A critique of Bacon's "Novum Organum," by Basil Montagu, extracted from the Retrospective Review, 1821. Few MS. notes”, p.285
  • It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.

    "Return to Mathematical Circles". Book by Howard Eves, 1988.
  • Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

    Math   Hands   Numbers  
    Carl Sandburg, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1995). “Carl Sandburg”, p.17, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

    Math   Men   Numbers  
  • Numbers constitute the only universal language.

    1933 Miss Lonely hearts.
  • Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

    Math   Knives   Division  
    Lewis Carroll (1875). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.189
  • God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

    Motivational   God   Math  
    "Quest: An Autobiography". Book by Leopold Infeld (p. 279), 1980.
  • Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

    Teaching   Math   Science  
    "Obituary for Emmy Noether". Letter to the Editor of The New York Times, www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. May 5, 1935.
  • 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.

    Address to Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 27 Jan. 1921
  • Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.

  • 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
  • Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

    Math   Noses   Wells  
  • When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

    Math   Science   Numbers  
    Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).
  • It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

    "A Budget of Paradoxes".
  • One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

    Philip J. Davis, William G. Chinn (1985). “3.1416 and all that”, Birkhauser
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