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“There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.”

Spiritual Activity Shapes Mathematics Colour Proportion Bricks Geometry Legos

Author:James May

“Mathematics is the science of patterns.”

Mathematics Patterns

Book:Achieving Quantitative Literacy: An Urgent Challenge for Higher Education

Source: Achieving Quantitative Literacy: An Urgent Challenge for Higher Education

“The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

“In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering - which was a nightmare scenario for me. Meeting other artists and going to punk rock shows at that age, there was a feeling of freedom and community that I wanted to partake in.”

Shows Feelings Age Wanted School Artist Community Rocks High School Mathematics Meetings Math Nightmare Punk Engineering Scenarios Punk Rock

Author:Laura Owens

“Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.”

Listening Music Is Ears Mathematics

Book:Conversations with Stockhausen

Source: Conversations with Stockhausen

“It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.”

Needs Law Protect Mathematics Insufficient

Book:Secrets and lies: digital security in a networked world

Source: Secrets and lies: digital security in a networked world

“In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.”

Men Technology Mathematics Classroom Engineering Science Technology

Author:Weili Dai

“It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.”

“When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.”

Study Students College Becoming Mathematics Physics Physicist Theoretical Yale College Students

Author:James Rothman

“The only reason psychology students don't have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven't yet discovered ways of dealing with problems as hard as those in psychology.”

Way Hard Reason Problem Psychology Havens Students Harder Mathematics Physics Mathematician Dealing With Problems

Author:John G. Kemeny

“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself. Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater.”

Men Should Stills I Can Remember Three Worry Greater Mines Difficulty Mathematics Fingers Pointing

Author:Albert Einstein

“Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they're the West's whipping boy. This is a problem that cannot be solved overnight, and certainly not militarily.”

Knows Problem Boys Mathematics Trade West Stagnation Whipping

Author:Brent Scowcroft

“People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.”

People Wish Understanding Mathematics Settling

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true.”

World Doe Real Mathematics Real World

Author:Albert Einstein

“[Georg Cantor was the first to prove that there could be a series of infinities; that infinities come in an infinite number of sizes.] Thus Cantor's Absolute is a perfect image for what we experience of God. When I speak of a Big Enough God I am not merely thinking of an Infinite God, but the God of infinities, the Absolute, which either chooses to reveal itself or remains veiled in mystery. Modern mathematics does begin to feel like the language that God talks.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Doe Enough Bigs Speak Language Perfect Numbers Mystery Modern Prove Absolutes Infinite Mathematics Remains Series Size Infinity

Author:Sara Maitland

“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.”

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Author:Lord Kelvin

“I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.”

Ifs Knows Beautiful Numbers Mathematics Math Numbers And Math Great Math Mathematical Beauty

Author:Paul Erdos

“Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.”

Art Different Mathematics

Book:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

“Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.”

Mind Humans Reason Desire Expression Perfection Mathematics Active Human Mind

Author:Richard Courant

“The aim of mathematics is to explain as much as possible in simple terms.”

Term Simple Aim Mathematics

Book:Collected Works: Michael Atiyah Collected Works: Volume 1: Early Papers; General Papers

Source: Collected Works: Michael Atiyah Collected Works: Volume 1: Early Papers; General Papers

“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.”

Space Numbers Computer Mathematics Patterns Definitions Defined Evident Resonance

Author:Lynn Steen

“Philosophically, mathematics is not a part of science. Mathematics studies patterns, science studies nature”

Study Mathematics Patterns

Author:Lynn Steen

“Very little mathematics has direct applications - though fortunately most of it has plenty of indirect ones.”

Littles Direct Mathematics Plenty Application Indirect

Book:Indiscrete Thoughts

Source: Indiscrete Thoughts

“These days people are much more aware that mathematics is a communal endeavor: even the most brilliant idea gets meaning only from its relation to the whole.”

People Ideas Whole Relation Mathematics Brilliant These Days Endeavor Brilliant Ideas

Author:Dusa McDuff

“The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to decide which.”

Real Hard Challenges Tragedy Mathematics Contact Biology Scandal

Book:Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy

Source: Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy

“Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.”

Use Mathematics Command Engines Levers Absent Minded

Book:The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)

Source: The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)

“Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.”

Enough Mathematics Defined

Author:John Allen Paulos

“Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as flawed as those of anyone else.”

Ifs May Personality Mathematics Acknowledge Mathematician Flawed

Book:Indiscrete Thoughts

Source: Indiscrete Thoughts

“The completion of a rigorous course in mathematics - it is not even necessary that the student does well in such a course - appears to be an excellent means of sharpening the mind and developing mental skills that are of general benefit.”

Mind Wells Mean Doe Courses Students Skills Benefits Mathematics Developing Excellent Completion Sharpening

Author:Keith Devlin

“For most problems found in mathematics textbooks, mathematical reasoning is quite useful. But how often do people find textbook problems in real life? At work or in daily life, factors other than strict reasoning are often more important. Sometimes intuition and instinct provide better guides; sometimes computer simulations are more convenient or more reliable; sometimes rules of thumb or back-of-the-envelope estimates are all that is needed.”

“Given the brief - and generally misleading - exposure most people have to mathematics at school, raising the public awareness of mathematics will always be an uphill battle.”

People School Given Awareness Battle Mathematics Exposure Mislead Uphill Battles

Author:Keith Devlin

“I'm not the sort of person who does my mathematics writing on paper. I do that at the last stage of the game. I do my mathematics in my head. I sit down for a hard day's work and I write nothing all day. I just think. And I walk up and down because that helps keep me awake, it keeps the blood circulating, and I think and think.”

Thinking Writing Persons Doe Hard Helping Lasts Games Walks Blood Stage Paper Mathematics Awake Up And Down Hard Days

Author:Michael Atiyah

“Doing research in mathematics is frustrating and if being frustrated is something you cannot get used to, then mathematics may not be an ideal occupation for you.”

Ifs May Used Research Ideals Mathematics Occupation Frustrated Frustrating Being Frustrated

Author:Peter Sarnak

“Because of mathematics precise, formal character, mathematical arguments remain sound even when they are long and complex. In contast, common sense arguments can generally be trusted only if they remain short; even moderately long nonmathematical arguments rapidly becomes farfetched an dubious.”

Ifs Long Character Sound Common Argument Mathematics Complexes Common Sense Mathematical Trusted Formal Precise Dubious

Author:Jacob T. Schwartz

“The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.”

Mathematics Remains Swings Timing Abstraction Back And Forth Pendulums

Book:Indiscrete Thoughts

Source: Indiscrete Thoughts

“I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.”

Thinking Important Creation Prove Benefits Models Mathematics Theorems

Author:David Mumford

“Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst.”

Moments Worst Fields Mathematics Chess Latter Best Moments

Book:Ex-prodigy: My Childhood and Youth

Source: Ex-prodigy: My Childhood and Youth

“Music is the language of God. God's language, music, is not like mathematics or geometry. It is a language of love. If we love music, that is enough.”

Ifs Enough Language Music Is Mathematics Geometry Music Love Language Of Love

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it.”

Two Life Is Teaching Mathematics Two Things

Author:Simeon Denis Poisson

“[Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to trial and verification; and it affords a boundless scope for the exercise of the highest efforts of imagination and invention.”

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Author:James Joseph Sylvester

“In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.”

Roles Masters Mathematics Servant

Author:Charles Hermite

“For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number.”

Moving Form Natural Numbers Concepts Mathematics Dependent Logical

Author:Hermann Weyl

“The tool which serves as intermediary between theory and practice, between thought and observation, is mathematics; it is mathematics which builds the linking bridges and gives the ever more reliable forms.”

Giving Form Practice Theory Tools Mathematics Observation Bridges Theory And Practice

Author:David Hilbert

“One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.”

Speak Language Figures Mathematics

Author:Galileo Galilei

“Any argument where one supposes an arbitrary choice to be made an uncountably infinite number of times ...[is] outside the domain of mathematics.”

Made Choices Numbers Argument Infinite Mathematics Domain Arbitrary

Author:Emile Borel

“I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.”

Natural Particular Mathematics Genuine Substance Encounters Natural Science

Author:Immanuel Kant

“The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been conjectured, sometimes a hundred years or more before they were proved; and they have been suggested by the evidence of a mass of computations.”

Years Has Beens Sometimes Numbers Theory Mass Hundred Evidence Mathematics Branches Theorems Computation Experimental Science

Author:G. H. Hardy

“I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids.”

Important Kids School Humanity Study High School Mathematics Instruments

Author:Stefan Banach

“I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.”

Hard School Mathematics

Author:David Hilbert

“The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.”

Ifs Different Helping Use Problem Seems Study Player Theory Easier Mathematics Chess Being True Branches Resolve Links Chess Players

Author:Viswanathan Anand