Quotes of: Mathematical Keyword

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.

Alonzo Church

It is almost as if ideas set in mathematical form melt and become liquid and just as rivers can, from the most humble beginnings, flow for thousands of miles, through the most varied topography bringing nourishment and life with them wherever they go...

How Math Works: A Guide to Grade School Arithmetic for Parents and Teachers

Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of "the mad woman of the house." And universal history is the gigantic and thousand-year effort to go on putting order into that huge, disorderly, anti-animal fantasy. What we call reas...

An Interpretation of Universal History

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that ou...

Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

Physics is the ultimate intellectual adventure, the quest to understand the deepest mysteries of our Universe. Physics doesn’t take something fascinating and make it boring. Rather, it helps us see more clearly, adding to the beauty and wonder of t...

Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

The new mathematics is a sort of supplement to language, affording a means of thought about form and quantity and a means of expression,more exact,compact, and ready than ordinary language. The great body of physical science, a great deal of the esse...

H.G. Wells

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

Andy Richter

Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.

The Shape

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

A Mathematician's Apology

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

Jean Piaget

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

Norm MacDonald

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

Paulo Coelho

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.

Marston Morse

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Frank Zappa

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

Steven Pinker

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

G. H. Hardy

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

John von Neumann

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

David Hilbert

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

Albert Pike

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Bertrand Russell