The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit
order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the
greatest forms of the beautiful.
- Aristotle
(384-322 BC)
Metaphysica
Today, it is not only that our kings do not know
mathematics, but our philosophers do not know
mathematics.
- Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
It is as if mathematics were the vegetables of the academic dinner: Everyone knows that they are good for you, but no one forces you to eat them.
- Timothy S. Norfolk, ”A Mathematician’s Apology? It’s Time to Stop”, FOCUS, Feb. 1997, pp. 14–15. (reprinted in Virginia Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 24, No. 1, Fall 1997, pp. 8–9.)
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel
no significance in the world around us beyond that
which can be weighed and measured with the tools
of the physicist or described by the metrical
symbols of the mathematician.
- Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to
reality, they are not certain; and as far as they
are certain, they do not refer to reality
- Albert Einstein
I don't believe in mathematics.
- Albert Einstein
Do not worry about your problems with mathematics,
I assure you mine are far greater.
- Albert Einstein
If it's green, it's biology, If it stinks, it's
chemistry, If it has numbers it's math, If it
doesn't work, it's technology
- Unknown
I think of lotteries as a tax on the
mathematically challenged.
- Roger Jones
Mathematics is a game played according to certain
simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
- David Hilbert
May Your Life Be Like Arithmetic:
Joys Added -
Sorrows Subtracted -
Friends Multiplied -
Love Un-Divided
- Unknown
Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of
my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.
- Margot Asquith
"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in
mathematics.
- Bell, Eric Temple
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
- Nicholaus Copernicus
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room
looking for a black cat which isn't there
- Charles R. Darwin
The laws of probability, so true in general, so
fallacious in particular.
- Edward Gibbon
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not
fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman
who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make
messes in the house.
- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", (Robert A. Heinlein)
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to
different things.
- Jules Henri Poincare
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will
be prayer in school.
- Cokie Roberts
Mathematicians don't crack jokes, they crack
codes.
- Tony Follari
Comedian
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
- M. C. Reed