"As
long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school."
-Cokie
Roberts
"Do
not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."
- Albert Einstein
"God
does arithmetic."
-Karl
Friedrich Gauss
"God
does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He
integrates
empirically."
-Albert
Einstein
"God
made the natural numbers, all the rest is the work of man."
-Leopold
Kronecker
"He
who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god."
-Plato
"How
dare we speak of the laws of chance? Is not chance the
antithesis
of all law?"
-Bertrand
Russell
"I
admit that mathematical science is a good thing. But excessive devotion to it is a bad thing."
-Aldous
Huxley
"I
am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with
an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate."
-David
Mumford
"I
don't believe in mathematics."
-Albert
Einstein
"I
have no faith in political arithmetic."
-Adam
Smith
"If
I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am
happy,
I do mathematics to keep happy."
-Alfréd
Rényi
"In
great mathematics there is a very high degree of unexpectedness,
combined with inevitability and economy."
-G. H.
Hardy
"In
mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."
-John Von
Neumann
"It
is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it."
-Andrejs
Dunkels
"Life
is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and
teaching
mathematics."
-Siméon
Poisson
"Mathematical
proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning."
-John
Locke
"Mathematicians
are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you
must also grant him, and from this consequence another."
-Bernard
Le Bouyer de Fontenelle
"Mathematics
consists of proving the most obvious thing in the
least
obvious way."
-George
Polya
"Mathematics
is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
-David
Hilbert
"[Mathematics]
is an independent world created out of pure intelligence."
-William
Wordsworth
"Mathematics
is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the
state."
-Plato
"Mathematics
is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself."
-Abraham
Kaplan
"Mathematics
is the art of giving the same name to different things."
-Jules
Henri Poincaré
"Mathematics
is the only instructional material that can be presented in an
entirely undogmatic way."
-Max Dehn
"Mathematics
is the science of what is clear by itself."
-Carl Jacobi
"Mathematics
may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are
talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."
-Bertrand
Russell, referring to the axiomatic method, where certain properties of an (otherwise unknown) structure are
assumed and consequences thereof are then logically derived
"Mathematics
seems to endow one with something like a new sense."
-Charles
Darwin
"Mathematics
takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to
which
not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform."
-Bertrand
Russell
"Measure
what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
-Galileo
Galilei
"Medicine
makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes
them sinful."
-Martin
Luther
"No
human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically."
-Leonardo
da Vinci
"Now
I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in
mathematics,
although I cannot see why it is so very important...The
knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?"
-Helen
Keller
"One
cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of
their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their
discoverers, that we get more out of them than was originally put into them."
-Heinrich
Rudolf Hertz
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