Mathematical famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.
-- Albert Einstein -
No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.
-- Alonzo Church -
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
-- Aristotle -
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
-- Auguste Comte -
I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle -
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
-- Blaise Pascal -
When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.
-- Brian Greene -
If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.
-- Brian Kernighan -
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss -
There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.
-- Chad Kroeger -
From a mathematical standpoint it is possible to have infinite space. In a mathematical sense space is manifoldness, or combinations of numbers. Physical space is known as the 3-dimension system. There is the 4-dimension system, the 10-dimension system.
-- Charles Proteus Steinmetz -
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.
-- Daniel Shanks -
Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Die mathematische Forschung besteht aus 10% Intuition und 90% Arbeit.
-- Edmund Hlawka -
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
-- Edmund Husserl -
It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out.
-- Emil Artin -
If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.
-- Eric Temple Bell -
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
-- Euclid -
I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.
-- Eva Amurri -
The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]
-- Freeman Dyson -
Nature is written in mathematical language.
-- Galileo Galilei -
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.
-- George Oppen -
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
-- George Santayana -
Inspiration is constantly in the air. It's up to us to develop the sensitivity to pick up on it.
-- Herbie Hancock -
Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.
-- Hermann Weyl -
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.
-- Isaac Asimov -
It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.
-- Jacob Bernoulli -
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.
-- James Jeans -
The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.
-- James Jeans -
The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character.
-- Joel Spencer -
The infinitely competent can be uncreative.
-- John Edensor Littlewood -
If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.
-- John von Neumann -
In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.
-- Karl Marx -
[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ...
-- Lord Kelvin -
The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero.
-- Louis Bachelier -
Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.
-- Marissa Mayer -
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
-- Nicolaus Copernicus -
But if two and two and fifty make a million,...
-- Pete Seeger -
The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.
-- Peter Tait -
Je serais reconnaissant a toute personne ayant compris cette demonstration de me l'expliquer.
-- Pierre Deligne -
I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.
-- Portia Doubleday -
It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.
-- Rita Coolidge -
We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.
-- Robert Lanza -
There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.
-- Russell Crowe -
Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.
-- Scarlett Thomas -
Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.
-- Sofia Kovalevskaya -
Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.
-- Stephen Cole Kleene -
Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.
-- Steve Winwood -
It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.
-- William Stanley Jevons -
In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science can only be satisfactorily treated on an explicitly mathematical basis.
-- William Stanley Jevons -
We have never pushed it far enough to know, but we decided 47 percent was the right percentage. You can quote us on that. It's very mathematical.
-- Cinco Paul -
Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear.
-- Edmund Landau -
MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more respectable.
-- Jim Propp -
It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.
-- Otto E. Neugebauer -
Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.
-- Charles Williams -
Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.
-- Robert Recorde -
The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.
-- Hermann Minkowski -
Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.
-- Jan Smuts -
The extraction tax is based in part on production times the market value at the wellhead, so any downturn in the market price is going to be a mathematical impact on the shale tax. But beyond that, it also concerns me because it also impacts the health of the industry.
-- Tom Wolf
