Mathematics Quotes - Page 21

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.337, Running Press

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• Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.

  Iris Murdoch

  Effort, Soul, Desire

  Iris Murdoch (1994). “Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals”, p.159, Penguin

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• Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Math, Insanity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [211]

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• God is subtle but he is not malicious.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, Math

  Remark made during a week at Princeton beginning 9 May 1921, later carved above the fireplace of the Common Room of Fine Hall (the Mathematical Institute), Princeton University - in R. W. Clark Einstein (1973) ch. 14

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• He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

  Plato

  Plato, Math, Understanding

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• I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

  Winston Churchill

  Math, Feelings, Let It Go

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to reevaluation of counting as a method of getting from one to ten. Students are taught advanced concepts of Boolean algebra, and formerly unsolvable equations are dealt with by threats of reprisals.

  Woody Allen

  Education, Writing, Science

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

  Simeon Denis Poisson

  Life, Teaching, Science

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• If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Beautiful, Simple, Records

  "Meet the new boss". Interview with Mark Hagen, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2009.

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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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• Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.

  T Bone Burnett

  Song, News, Ethics

  Source: collider.com

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• People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.

  Richard P. Feynman

  People, Understanding, Wish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• [Georg Cantor was the first to prove that there could be a series of infinities; that infinities come in an infinite number of sizes.] Thus Cantor's Absolute is a perfect image for what we experience of God. When I speak of a Big Enough God I am not merely thinking of an Infinite God, but the God of infinities, the Absolute, which either chooses to reveal itself or remains veiled in mystery. Modern mathematics does begin to feel like the language that God talks.

  Sara Maitland

  Thinking, Numbers, Perfect

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• Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

  Plato

  People, Language

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• Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.

  Kenneth Appel

  Science, Errors, Machines

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• Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."

  John Allen Paulos

  States, Laconic, Mathematician

  John Allen Paulos (2007). “Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up”, p.8, Macmillan

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• I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't.

  Brad Pitt

  Character, Cracks, Problem

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• Mathematics is the language of size.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Size, Language

  "Mathematics for the Million". Book by Lancelot Hogben, 1937.

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• It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

  Henri Poincare

  Math, Intuition, Logic

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.746, Modern Library

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• Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had gone off to become a poet. Hilbert is reported to have remarked: 'I never thought he had enough imagination to be a mathematician.'

  George Polya

  Creativity, Men, Imagination

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• Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician.

  Hermann Hesse

  Player, Glasses, Games

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.33, Macmillan

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• Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.

  Robert Musil

  Men, Wicked, Earth

  Robert Musil (1961). “The Man Without Qualities”

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• Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, World, Belief

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.38, Routledge

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• The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Life, Individualism, Abstract

  Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”

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• "Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Math, White

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.188, Race Point Pub

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