“A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.”
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Mathematics Quotes
“Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.”
Source: The queen of the sciences
“As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.”
“The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.”
“We never know what we are talking about.”
Source: Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography
“Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.”
Source: The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge
“Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.”
“Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.”
Source: Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving
“In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.”
“I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.”
Source: Notebooks
Source: Works: containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition ...
“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein
“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”