M Quotes
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“Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.”
Source: Mathematics and the Imagination
“Mathematics is an art of human understanding.”
“Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.”
“Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.”
“Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.”
“Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.”
Source: The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance
“Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.”
“Mathematics is as old as Man.”
“Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself”
“Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.”
“Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."”
“Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.”
Source: Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Exact logic (Published papers).. The Simplest mathematics
“Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated with concepts introduced previously by means of precise definitions.”
“Mathematics is for lazy people.”
“Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it.”
“Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.”
Source: Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
“Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.”
“Mathematics is life: the workings (process) is more important than the answer (proof/product). A wrong process cannot make a right product.”
“Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.”
“Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.”
“Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.”
“Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.”
“Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.”
“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us to obtain amazing new insights into the way in which nature operates. Indeed, the beauty and elegance of the physical laws themselves are only apparent when expressed in the appropriate mathematical framework.”
Source: Principles of Electrodynamics
“Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that computation, such as doing long division, is not mathematics at all. Calculators can do the same thing and calculators can only calculate they cannot do mathematics.”
Source: Elementary School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally
“Mathematics is my first language.”
“Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.”
“Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the desire to create; and that is apt to happen to a mathematician rather soon. It is a pity, but in that case he does not matter a great deal anyhow, and it would be silly to bother about him.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.”
“Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.”
“Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.”
Source: I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography
“Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure”
“Mathematics is not a separate entity. It owes a great deal of its power and its beauty to other disciplines.”
“Mathematics is not a spectator sport!”
“Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.”
“Mathematics is not an unreal abstraction, as sensory science says. It is reality in itself, stripped of all sensory interpretations and perceptions. “Light” is just another word for reality in itself, for pure math! Have you seen the light yet?”
Source: Transcendental Mathematics
“Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems-general and specific statements-can be deduced from the starting assumptions. It is, perhaps, the purest and most rigorous of intellectual activities, and is often thought of as queen of the sciences.”
“Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.”
“Mathematics is not just solving for x, it's also figuring out why.”
“Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.”
“Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.”
“Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And matter is made of particles. It's made of electrons and neutrons and protons. So the entire universe is made out of particles. Now what are the particles made out of They're not made out of anything. The only thing you can say about the reality of an electron is to cite its mathematical properties. So there's a sense in which matter has completely dissolved and what is left is just a mathematical structure.”
“Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we ask where mathematics works best, it is in areas like particle physics and astrophysics, areas of fundamental science that are very, very far removed from everyday affairs.”
“Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.”
“Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.”
“Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.”
“Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.”
“Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion?”
“Mathematics is often defined as the science of space and number . . . it was not until the recent resonance of computers and mathematics that a more apt definition became fully evident: mathematics is the science of patterns.”