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Mathematics Quotes

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man’s game Picture Quote #1

The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune Picture Quote #1

The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge Picture Quote #1

One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it Picture Quote #1

Mathematics... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician Picture Quote #1

Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself Picture Quote #1

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One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war Picture Quote #1

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation Picture Quote #1

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solution Picture Quote #1

I was on the mathematics faculty at M. I. T. From 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959 Picture Quote #1

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A’s Picture Quote #1

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves Picture Quote #1

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If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper Picture Quote #1

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes Picture Quote #1

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence Picture Quote #1

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics Picture Quote #1

Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears Picture Quote #1

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely Picture Quote #1

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Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas Picture Quote #1

Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion Picture Quote #1

In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning Picture Quote #1

I didn’t feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world Picture Quote #1

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts Picture Quote #1

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half Picture Quote #1

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There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics Picture Quote #1

I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics Picture Quote #1

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind’s eye through infinite time and the mind’s hand into boundless space Picture Quote #1

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations Picture Quote #1

Axiomatization is what one does last, it’s rubbish. It’s the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization Picture Quote #1

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention Picture Quote #1

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No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man’s game (Mathematics Quotes) The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune (Mathematics Quotes) The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge (Mathematics Quotes) One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it (Mathematics Quotes) Mathematics... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician (Mathematics Quotes) Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself (Mathematics Quotes) One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war (Mathematics Quotes) I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation (Mathematics Quotes) We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solution (Mathematics Quotes) I was on the mathematics faculty at M. I. T. From 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959 (Mathematics Quotes) Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A’s (Mathematics Quotes) When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves (Mathematics Quotes) If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper (Mathematics Quotes) The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes (Mathematics Quotes) The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence (Mathematics Quotes) Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics (Mathematics Quotes) Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears (Mathematics Quotes) The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely (Mathematics Quotes) Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas (Mathematics Quotes) Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion (Mathematics Quotes) In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning (Mathematics Quotes) I didn’t feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world (Mathematics Quotes) Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts (Mathematics Quotes) Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half (Mathematics Quotes) There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics (Mathematics Quotes) I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics (Mathematics Quotes) Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind’s eye through infinite time and the mind’s hand into boundless space (Mathematics Quotes) Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations (Mathematics Quotes) Axiomatization is what one does last, it’s rubbish. It’s the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization (Mathematics Quotes) It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention (Mathematics Quotes)

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