Famous Math Quote

Famous Math Quote

Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge.
Anonymous

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
Aristotle

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
Roger Bacon

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
Roger Bacon

The Handmaiden of the Sciences.
Eric Temple Bell

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
P.W. Bridgman

I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors. Everybody a mathematician?
James Caballero

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
Arthur Cayley

Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum. [Fr., Entre le penis et les mathematiques . . . il n'existe rien. Rien! C'est le vide.]
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Revolutions never occur in mathematics.
Michael Crowe

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
Charles R. Darwin

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.
Philip J. Davis

Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.
Max Wilhelm Dehn

With me everything turns into mathematics. [Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]
Max Wilhelm Dehn

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Max Wilhelm Dehn

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater.
Max Wilhelm Dehn

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?
Max Wilhelm Dehn

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Max Wilhelm Dehn

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Evan Esar

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
Paul Erdos

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John Von Neumann

A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure.
Tony Orlando

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.Unknown

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