705 Quotes About Mathematics

Mathematically, the purpose of life is to produce a result. In human terms, it is called Happiness.

On October thirteenth, twenty sixteen.My operations were out of order, but I never gave up.I have a Math brain

Mathematics isn’t just science, it is poetry – our efforts to crystallise the unglimpsed connections between things. Poetry that bridges and magnifies the mysteries of the galaxy. But the signs and symbols and equations sentients employ to express these connections are not discoveries but the teasing out of secrets that have always existed.

Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful

I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.

Last period of the day. Charles had decided that morning that he would talk about tessellations. Last period, they should have been covering sines and cosines. They should have been starting to graph, but he just didn't have it in him. Tessellations were his favorite.

Good general theory does not search for the maximum generality, but for the right generality.

With mathematics we stand precisely at that intersection of bondage and freedom that is the essence of the human itself.

Woodrow Wilson, like most other educated Americans of his time, despised mathematics, complaining that "the natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be leaned by painful process of drill.