Quotes of Math - somelinesforyou

“ 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

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

- Albert Einstein

“ Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ The more I study physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. ”

- John von Neumann

“ Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Using current mathematics and technology, it is impossible to even consider factoring a 1024-bit number. I'm not willing to make any hard predictions about tomorrow. ”

- Bruce Schneier

“ The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. ”

- Aristotle

“ Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. ”

- Roger Bacon

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

- Roger Bacon

“ Math is like love — a simple idea but it can get complicated. ”

- R. Drabek

“ Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. ”

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

“ Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes. ”

- Mickey Mouse

“ As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. ”

- Arthur Cayley

“ Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge. ”

- Unknown

“ The Handmaiden of the Sciences. ”

- Eric Temple Bell

“ 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. ”

- G. H. Hardy

“ Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. ”

- David Hilbert

“ Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ”

- Fran Lebowitz

“ If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959. ”

- John Nash

“ 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

“ The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it. ”

- James Newman

“ Well, I was always… I used to get 100% in physics and chemistry and mathematics and that was in high school. ”

- James Doohan

“ To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain; to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason? ”

- James Joseph Sylvester

“ It is not pure mathematics, but also a bit of politics. ”

- Goran Persson
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