705 Quotes About Mathematics

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.

You get to use your head. People think it's just whatever cards you get, but there's a lot of thought involved. There's math involved, trying to figure out what your chances are compared to others.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.