Math Quotes, Sayings about Mathematics - Page 4
I don’t believe in mathematics.
- Albert Einstein
The essence of math is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.
- S. Gudder
Round numbers are always false.
- Samuel Johnson
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
Young man, in mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
- John von Neumann
In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the use of the pure mathematics.
What is algebra exactly; is it those three- cornered things?
- James Matthew Barrie
Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very spirit of life itself.
- Claude Bragdon
One can always reason with reason.
The longer math lives the more abstract and therefore, possibly also the more practical it becomes.
- Eric Temple Bell
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be occupied with the ideas of number and quantity.
- George Boole
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
- Andre Weil
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
- Plato
The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
- Arthur Eddington
Math is the queen of the sciences.
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
Twelve for 23… It doesn’t take a genius to see that’s under 50 percent.
- Dick Vitale
To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain; to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.
- Albert Einstein
“Obvious” is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
- Eric Temple Bell
A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.
- Robert Daniel Carmichael
2 is not equal to 3 – not even for very large values of 2.