Mathematics Quotes

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein

Worry, Greater, Mine

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

Reality, Far, Laws

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein

Poetry, Ideas, Logical

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams

Politics, War, May

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.
H. L. Mencken

Woman, She, Chemistry

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.
Richard Dawkins

Science, Ignorance, Become

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Bertrand Russell

Poetry, True, Sense

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

True, Saying, May

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.
Bertrand Russell

Love, God, Nothing

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.
Danica McKellar

Respect, Smart, Yourself

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Bertrand Russell

Word, Possible, Takes

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.
Stephen Hawking

Good, Women, Men

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
Nikola Tesla

Today, Reality, Through

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon

Him, Study, Wit

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
Paul Dirac

God, Beautiful, Used

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Galileo Galilei

Advice, Start, Again

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Maria Montessori

Beauty, Science, Poetry

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
Carl Sandburg

Work, Time, Hard

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
Charles Caleb Colton

Study, Begins, Ends

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Stendhal

Hypocrisy, Vagueness, Allows

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
Maimonides

Human, Study, Next

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Richard M. Nixon

Sympathy, Philosophy, Learn

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.
Howard Nemerov

Around, Talk, Language

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
Danica McKellar

Love, Art, Amazing

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
Camille Paglia

Religion, Nature, Art

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
Georg Cantor

Art, Question, Value

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
Christopher Columbus

Execution, Voyage, Maps

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Music, Art, Poetry

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