Quotes by Mathematics My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part. Bernard Bolzano mathematicspleasurespecial If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough. Bernhard Riemann mathematicsenougheasy Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty. Bertrand Russell western-philosophymathematicsmath The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. Bertrand Russell delightmathematicsspirit Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes . Bertrand Russell mathematicscausespurpose The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture. Bertrand Russell logicmathematicsarchitecture Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words. Bertrand Russell mathematicsdifferentart Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics. Bill Gaede mathematicsatheismatheist Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter. Bjarne Stroustrup mathematicsscienceyears Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. Blaise Pascal contradictionmathematicstruth Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. Brian Greene avant-gardemathematicsscience Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics. Brian Greene upheavalmathematicscentury When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'. Brian Greene mathematicsphysicsgiving If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again. Brian Kernighan mathematicalmathematicsdone On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra. Brian Patten mathematicspoetmind I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. Brit Marling economicsmathematicsbrain It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. Bruce Schneier mathematicslawneeds It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. Carl Friedrich Gauss mathematicalmathematicspossession I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics. Carl Friedrich Gauss mathematicsinfiniteuse In mathematics there are no true controversies. Carl Friedrich Gauss controversymathematics«1234567891011»
