Mathematics Quotes

The mathematics is not there till we put it there. (Arthur Eddington)
To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be. View quote
Leonhard Euler
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. View quote
John von Neumann
Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true. View quote
Bertrand Russell
God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. View quote
Paul Dirac
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. View quote
Izaak Walton
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. View quote
Henri Poincaré
Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. View quote
Albert Einstein
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. View quote
John Adams
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. View quote
George Boole
A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God. (Donald Knuth)
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied... For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics. View quote
G. H. Hardy
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. View quote
Andrew Wiles
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future. View quote
Andrew Wiles
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. View quote
Vannevar Bush
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences. View quote
Galileo Galilei
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. View quote
James Joseph Sylvester
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it. View quote
André Weil
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. View quote
Bertrand Russell
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. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more than a machine. (Kurt Gödel)
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. View quote
David Hilbert
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. View quote
H. L. Mencken
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. View quote
Richard Dawkins
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? View quote
Richard Courant