“Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.”
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Source: Mathematics in Western Culture
“Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.”
Source: Mathematics in Western Culture
“Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.”
Source: A Hilbert Space Problem Book
“What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns.”
“Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.”
Source: Elementary School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally
“I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.”
“I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.”
Source: As We Are Now: A Novel
Source: Notebooks
Source: Works: containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition ...
“Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.”
“Numerical precision is the very soul of science.”
Source: On Growth and Form
“All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.”
“We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!”
Source: The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks
“"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."”
“Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.”
“All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.”
Source: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections
“Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.”
Source: Architecture and Democracy
“The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.”
Source: Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary
“Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.”
Source: Carl Sandburg
“Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?”
Source: The Humorous Verse of Lewis Carroll
“Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.”