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Mathematics Quotes

The top contributors are mostly people who wrote about mathematics: Jane Frances McDonnell, G. F. J. Temple, Stanislaw Ulam, Bertrand Russell and Morris Kline. The best-sourced lines, though, are by William Blake, filed here for the word infinity. They include “To see a World in a Grain of Sand” from Auguries of Innocence (1803) and the cleansing of the doors of perception in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790).

Three entries are flagged. “Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences” is credited to Galileo and marked misattributed. A line saying the highest form of pure thought is in mathematics is credited to Plato and disputed. So is the claim that the ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate any need for intelligent thought, credited to Alfred North Whitehead.

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I have always been interested in the fundamentals of mathematics. To know if all that is true is demonstrable.

Amina Doumane

Without mathematics, we are blind.

Alain Badiou

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis

Kenneth Boulding to Kenneth Boulding in: Peter J. Dougherty (2002)

During this century mathematics has been transformed...

George Frederick James Temple

Thus, science, technology, engineering and mathematics applications should be at highest levels.

Masego Segokgo

The highest life is mathematics.

Novalis Blüthenstaub (1798)

Now I think hydrodynamics is to be the root of all physical science, and is at present second to none in the beauty of its mathematics.

William Thomson

I never thought I would be a journalist in my life. When I was growing up, in high school, my father was very, very tough on me. I was very bad in mathematics.

Sandra Nyaira

I learned about the mathematics of cryptography and was completely taken by it.

Dan Boneh

My advice to young scholars is to pursue their dreams. Don’t let anyone stop you from pursuing your passion. If you love mathematics, go for it.

Aissa Wade

Mathematics succeeds in dealing with tangible reality by being conceptual. We cannot cope with the full physical complexity; we must idealize.

George Pólya Mathematical Methods in Science (1977)

Calculus is the mathematics of change. ...Change is characteristic of the world.

Richard Hamming Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

It came as a tremendous surprise, for in his student days Einstein had been a lazy dog... He never bothered about mathematics at all.

Hermann Minkowski

Mathematics is the kingdom of specification and computation is the kingdom of implementation. It's very important to understand this difference.

Joscha Bach Joscha: Computational Meta-Psychology (2015)

Also, students in the various SHSs are beginning to understand and appreciate the study of science and mathematics, whether in the urban or rural areas

Abena Durowaa Mensah

Any unwillingness to learn mathematics today can greatly restrict your possibilities tomorrow.

Richard Hamming Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

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[Poetry] is the highest of all languages... higher even than mathematics. It is on a plane with music.

N. Scott Momaday In the Bear's House (1999)

My father was very vast. He taught both English and Mathematics. However, my mum took some time off teaching to nurture us (children).

Folake Onayemi

I remember my love of mathematics emerging in first grade when I was excited by math facts and bored with coloring.

Dawn Lott

Among the foundations of the Higher Mathematics is also the 'Idea of a Limit'. The Idea of a Limit cannot be superseded by any other definitions or Hypotheses.

William Whewell

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