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Mathematics Quotes
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 (1879 - 1955)
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)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 (1872 - 1970), Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855), from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]
I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll find something really incredible. Not just a pattern, not just an order, but a sign. A mathematical sign.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Nothing's Perfect,
1992
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
I have seen men fly bombers with their faces half- blown away. You're going to allow a few algebra formulas to ground you?
Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Cup of Joe, 1993
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), The Nature of the Physical World
The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), The Philosophy of Physical Science
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 (1882 - 1944), The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (A. L. Mackay), 1977
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 (1890 - 1974) |  |
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