Mathematics Quotes

The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human enquiry can be a science unless it pursues its path through mathematical exposition and demonstration.

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences, because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

The advancement and perfection of mathematics are ultimately connected with the prosperity of the state.

Equality is not only a matter of quantity but of quality; not merely of mathematics and geometry, but of psychology.

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

I know there are groups at the top of the charts that are hailed as the saviors of rock 'n' roll and all that, but they are amateurs. They don't know where the music comes from . . . I wouldn't even think about playing music if I was born in these times . . . I'd probably turn to something like mathematics. That would interest me. Architecture would interest me. Something like that.

I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you, mine are still greater.

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

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.