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The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. -- Euclid
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. -- David Hilbert
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded... -- Alan Turing
Mathematical Analysis is as extensive as nature herself. -- Joseph Fourier
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! -- William Blake
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation. -- Henri Poincare
Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality -- Paul Feyerabend
Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge. -- Auguste Comte
Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations. -- Peter Debye
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. -- John Arbuthnot
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning. -- John Locke
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard. -- Janos Bolyai
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
Perspective is an Art Mathematical which demonstrates the manner and properties of all radiations direct, broken and reflected. -- John Dee
Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment! -- Gregory Chaitin
Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices. -- John Arbuthnot
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. -- Alan Turing
Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species. -- Barry Mazur
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well prepared by labour, both conscious and subconscious. -- Henri Poincare
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. -- Gosta Mittag-Leffler
College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line. -- Bill Gaede
The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it to vanish from being. Mathematical propositions, if true, are eternal verities. -- Cassius Jackson Keyser
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences. -- Ronald Fisher
There can never be surprises in logic. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. -- Rene Descartes
One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem. -- Stephen Hawking
The search for truth is more precious than its possession. -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdos
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. -- Albert Einstein
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. -- Havelock Ellis
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. -- E. M. Forster
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. -- David Hilbert
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. -- Gottfried Leibniz
It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think. -- John Wesley Young
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more. -- Albert Einstein
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. -- Andrew Wiles
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. -- Marquis de Custine
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. -- Aristotle
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. -- William Gibson
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. -- Blaise Pascal
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. -- Aristotle
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. -- John von Neumann
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! -- Edmund Husserl
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. -- Frank Zappa
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. -- Calvin Trillin
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth. -- Jean Piaget
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there. -- Marcus du Sautoy
I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like. -- Stephen Hawking
We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature. -- Robert Lanza
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
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. -- Bertrand Russell
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. -- Bertrand Russell
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. -- Leo Tolstoy
Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a very, very clear description that was truly prophetic. -- George Dyson
Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things. -- Alexander Grothendieck
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. -- George Boole
I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity. -- Tallulah Bankhead
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. -- Edsger Dijkstra
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision. -- Thomas A. Edison
Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex. -- Viswanathan Anand
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations. -- G. H. Hardy
If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures? -- Martin Gardner
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments. -- David Hilbert
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon. -- Roger Bacon
The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved. -- Paul Dirac
One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side. -- Ally Condie
I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it. -- James Marsh
Fourier is a mathematical poem. -- Lord Kelvin
A mathematical equation stands forever -- Albert Einstein
It's like a mathematical law, Grace. -- Paul Auster
A mathematical proof must be perspicuous. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nature is written in mathematical language. -- Galileo Galilei
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance. -- Morris Kline
Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic. -- Scarlett Thomas
Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale. -- David Letterman
A physical law must possess mathematical beauty. -- Paul Dirac
Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure. -- Max Tegmark
Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical. -- Blaise Pascal
The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero. -- Louis Bachelier
Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations. -- Isaac Asimov
Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite. -- Eckhart Tolle
Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical. -- Steve Winwood
I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal. -- Portia Doubleday
There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business. -- Warren Buffett
Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. -- Hermann Weyl
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. -- Albert Einstein
The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination. -- Augustus De Morgan
Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion. -- Vitruvius
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul. -- Gottfried Leibniz
A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations. -- Karl Popper
I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula. -- Augusten Burroughs
As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more. -- Amy Chua
Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear. -- L. E. J. Brouwer
Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols. -- Al Nichol
Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ? -- Jacques Hadamard
The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor. -- H. David Burton
There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind -- Yuri Milner
A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God. -- Donald Knuth
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational, -- Stephen Hawking
It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense. -- Rita Coolidge
Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them. -- Warren Buffett
Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program. -- Seth Klarman
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. -- James F. Cooper
There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is. -- Russell Crowe
The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery. -- Joseph Fourier
Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol? -- Fulton J. Sheen
Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory. -- Chen-Ning Yang
Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics. -- Stephen Hawking
Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain. -- Eva Amurri
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. -- John Edensor Littlewood
Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global... -- Rene Thom
So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple. -- Tycho Brahe
[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ... -- Lord Kelvin
A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present. -- John Donne
God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here. -- Paul Erdos

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