705 Quotes About Mathematics

Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.

An arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war.

There is a mathematics to all his relationships, underlying each and every one. He wants it to all add up in his head and he wants to do the adding. And should someone step outside his ciphers, the circle his mind has drawn, his trust evaporates.

Children must be taught mathematics well in anywhere under every condition at every age and so we can have more rational, more logical societies!

There is a unique Math behind the very notion of life, I seek it.

Amusement if one of humankind's strongest motivational forces.

the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.

The integrals which we have obtained are not only general expressions which satisfy the differential equation, they represent in the most distinct manner the natural effect which is the object of the phenomenon... when this condition is fulfilled, the integral is, properly speaking, the equation of the phenomenon; it expresses clearly the character and progress of it, in the same manner as the finite equation of a line or curved surface makes known all the properties of those forms.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.