Quotes by Mathematics Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. E. T. Bell mathematicssimplicityfitnessart It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. E. T. Bell whichoffimmortalitymathematics The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. E. T. Bell practicalmoremathematicsabstract The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom. Georg Cantor liesmathematicsfreedomessence I appreciate and enjoy mathematics and science and all that side of things. I definitely have that side of me even though I'm not by any means an expert, but I love reading about physics and math and that kind of stuff. I wish I knew more than I did. I mean, I read books written for laymen, not textbooks or anything. Chris Parnell memathematicslovescience Fractions, decimals, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, mechanics - these are the steps up the mountain side. How high is one going to get? For me, the pinnacle was Projective Geometry. Who today has even heard of this branch of mathematics? Christopher Robin Milne memountainmathematicstoday Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from it. Christopher Robin Milne likemathematicsmusicenough My high school, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, showed me that anything is possible and that you're never too young to think big. At 15, I worked as a computer programmer at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab. After graduating, I attended Stanford for a degree in economics and computer science. Clara Shih meyoumathematicsscience The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race, or social class - are more likely to make academic gains in mathematics, reading, and often science than they are in segregated ones. Clint Smith mathematicsreadingracescience I wonder if economics has less basic core material than is necessary for fields such as mathematics, physics, or chemistry, say. Clive Granger sayeconomicschemistrymathematics I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising. Clive Granger somethoughtmathematicsfashion Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that gives us a mathematical taxonomy of social life, and it predicts what people are likely to do and believe others will do in cases where everyone's actions affect everyone else. Colin Camerer mathematicslifesciencepeople Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual. Conrad Wolfram morecomputersyoumathematics If everybody who was in the Forbes 400 said they were going to create 10,000 jobs, by my mathematics, that would be 4 million jobs. William E. Conway, Jr. createwhomathematicssaid Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary. William Adams mathematicsunderstandinggraceart«1516171819202122232425
