Quotes about Mathematics

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Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beaut — Deepak Chopra
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. — Fran Lebowitz
I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it. — Michael Grant, Gone
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly! — Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
What comes, is called. — Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetor — Francis Bacon, The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, consider — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages an — George Pólya
When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it thi — Neal Stephenson, Anathem
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth. — Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth. — Amit Ray
People enjoy inventing slogans which violate basic arithmetic but which illustrate “deeper” truths, such as “1 and 1 mak — Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world. — Bill Gaede, Why God Doesn't Exist
If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put — Bill Gaede, Why God Doesn't Exist
A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitut — Bill Gaede
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics. — Bill Gaede
Mathematically, the purpose of life is to produce a result. In human terms, it is called Happiness. — Joey Lawsin, Creation by Law
Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words