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Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
Sep 13, 2025
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.
"Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted.
I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.
In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.
Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?
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.
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who cannot.
Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience
Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field.
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.