Mathematics And Science Quotes - Page 2

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

  John Adams

  Education, Philosophy, War

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin

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

  Albert Einstein

  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.

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• Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

  Carl Benjamin Boyer

  Math, Science, Culture

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• The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Math, Magnificence, Study

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.164

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• For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

  Roger Bacon

  Knowledge, Math, World

  Roger Bacon (2016). “Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2”, p.128, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Every moment dies a man,
  Every moment one is born.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Men, Mathematics

  'The Vision of Sin' (1842) pt. 4, st. 9.

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• The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Spirit, Madness

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

  "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 172), 1973.

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• We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

  Mark Twain

  Math, Science, Eight

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.8549, Delphi Classics

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• A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  G. H. Hardy

  Education, Math, Unique

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

  Andrew Lang

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.

  G. H. Hardy

  Lying, Believe, Science

  G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

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• Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

  Benjamin Peirce

  Math, Science, Definitions

  "Linear Associative Algebra" (1870)

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• Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

  Lord Kelvin

  Math, Numbers, Metaphysics

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• Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

  Izaak Walton

  Learning, Math, Fishing

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) 'Epistle to the Reader'

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• We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Jobs, Writing, Math

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• Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mean, Science, Math

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.10, OUP Oxford

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• Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

  David Hilbert

  Math, Simple, Games

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• A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Cat, Science

  Quoted in John D Barrow Pie in the Sky, Counting, Thinking and Being (1992).

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• We never know what we are talking about.

  Karl Popper

  Math, Talking, Mathematical Logic

  Karl Popper (2005). “Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography”, p.26, Routledge

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• Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  G. H. Hardy

  Beauty, Math, Apology

  A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)

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• Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

  Paul Halmos

  Math, Science, Errors

  "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.

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• Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

  George Polya

  Knowledge, Math, Obvious Things

  George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”

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• Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

  Sofia Kovalevskaya

  Science, Opportunity, Reality

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• The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

  Immanuel Kant

  Math, Science, Example

  Immanuel Kant (1881). “Critique of Pure Reason”

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