705 Quotes About Mathematics

Wittgenstein was brilliant enough to see that math is, and must be, pure tautology, but not brilliant enough to see that mathematical tautology is descriptive andreal, not empty and abstract.

An activity engaged in purely for its consequences, without any pleasure in the activity itself, is likely to be poorly executed.

The salient and undeniable truth about cryptography is that no measure of violence or proscriptive legislation will ever solve a math problem.

Nunca se sabe, con ningún problema matemático, lo que se necesitará para solucionarlo. Esperas y rezas por ser capaz de hallar una solución bonita y elegante, y descubrir, quizá, algo interesante a lo largo del camino.

It's not the problem, but the complexity of a solution which makes a problem complex.

The more deeply we probe the fundamentals of physical behaviour, the more that it is very precisely controlled by mathematics.

The ultimate justification of mathematics lies beyond mathematics and yet in it; the divine end of Being lies beyond Love and yet is Love--oh, shining spouse, oh dark death, strange confusion of spheres.

How can God be nowhere in space (nullibism) and also complete in every part of space (holenmerism)? Only by being a Singularity that emanates or projects a holographic “physical” universe from itself. Nullibism and holenmerism are exactly the two concepts essential to a religious, spiritual, intuitive, non-local, entangled and mathematical universe.

Once you accept mathematics as reality, you immediately see that everything has a sufficient reason, an explanation and answer, and you are part of the cosmic machinery of providing all of these answers. You yourself are an essential node of the calculation.