705 Quotes About Mathematics

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

Mathematics can instruct us on how to optimize. But what to optimize—that remains a question for humans.

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

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 a verb after!

I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon [Ausweg]. And actually not a year passed before it became an official credo, and it still is.

A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.

Wir dürfen nicht denen glauben, die heute mit philosophischer Miene und über-legenem Tone den Kulturuntergang prophezeien und sich in dem Ignorabimus gefallen. Füruns gibt es kein Ignorabimus, und meiner Meinung nach auch für die Naturwissenschaftüberhaupt nicht. Statt des törichten Ignorabimus heisse im Gegenteil unsere Lösung: Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen.

It is more important to have beauty in one’s equation than to have them fit experiment

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.